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NEW HAMPSHIRE, 



NEAR UNCTION HOUNl)AR\' IJNES OF 



lebanon, piainfielb anb <^rantt)am. 



Bv THOMAS HILLS, Esm.. 

OF BOSTON. 

Life Member o/ the New England Historic Genealogical Society. 
President of the Hills Family Association. 



BOSTON: 

PRESS OF DAVID CLAPP & SON. 

1910 



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THREE ANCIENT CEMETERIES. 



In Grafton county, New Hampshire, in the town of Enfield, near 
the boundary line that separates that township from that of Leba- 
non, bes one of the great ponds of the state. It is a beautiful sheet 
of water about tive miles in length, covering 1600 acres of a valley 
walled in by hills with mountains of moderate height a part of its 
horizon line. Near its inlet from smaller ponds on a higher level, 
its banks are dotted with summer cottages ; on its southern bank is 
the large farm belonging to the fraternity of Shakers, which once 
so numerous that at this station three " families " occupied different 
portions of it, where now a little band of " sisters " with one or two 
" brothers " and a group of children gathered from " the world's peo- 
ple," inhabit the great stone structure which when it was built " cost 
more than any building in the state except the capitol at Concord." 
This sliect of water is locally known as Lake Moscoma. Its outlet 
is a stream of an average width of five or six rods, which, falling 
some foiu' or five hundred feet in its westerly descent to the Connec- 
ticut, is called the Moscoma river. Settlement of this region began 
about the middle of the 18th century. Those who cleared its farms 
were mainly from Connecticut ; they came up the river to their new 
homes and gave to New Hampshire a cluster of familiar town names 
transfered from the comnumities they had left. On the fertile land 
near where the Moscoma joins the Connecticut river the early set- 
tlers of Lebanon built then- log cal)ins and in July, 17G1, obtained 
a charter for their town. On a hill a half mile east of the Connec- 
ticut, and a few hundred feet north of the Moscoma, the first burial 
ground of the new town was established. It takes its name " The 
Old Pine Cemetery " from a noble tree, whose roots grasping the 
footstone at the grave of one of the earliest settlers, have thrown it 
from its upright position and partially lifted it from its place. In 
the latter part of August of the current year, the compiler with 
members of his family visited this old burial place and copied from 
its monuments and headstones the information genealogically valuable 
that they still hold. He believes that the inscriptions were carefully 
taken, as the youngest of the copyists was nineteen years old and 
he thinks that none were omitted as the junior of the group marked 
each stone as the copy of its record was finished. Witli such infor- 
mation as he found in the library of the New England Historic Gen- 



ealogical Society as to the families of those who there sleep their 
last sleep, he enters them and those of two less ancient cemeteries, 
in alphabetical order in the following pages. 

In memory of Daniel Alden Esquire, who died May 18"' 1790 in the 
71^* year of his age. 

In memory of Mrs. Jane Alden, Eelict of the late Dauiel Alden Esq., 
who died May G*^ 1817 in her 93*^' year. 

The " Memorial of the descendants of the Hon. John Alden, by Ebeuezer 
Alden M.D.,of Randolph [Norfolk Co.] Mass. [1788-1881] is tlie authority 
for the genealogical line here given. Dr. Alden in his work acknowledges 
the valuable assistance he received from his " Aunt Jane " of Lebanon. 
John Alden joined the Mayflower when she touched at one of the ports 
of the south coast of England, while on her voyage from Holland to New 
England. Among liis fellow passengers on the famous ship were William 
Molines or Mullins, who with his wife died at Plymouth in Feb. 1G21, 
and their daughter Priscilla. " Tradition rejjresents Priscilla to have 
been very beautiful in her youth, and John also was a comely person, and 

* * * it is not surprising that when he was sent by Capt. Standish, 
after the death of his wife, to solicit her hand in marriage, she preferred 
the messenger to the message." Longfellow tells the story in his " Court- 
ship of Myles Standish : " 

" Archly the maiden smiled, and, witli eyes overrunning Avitli laughter, 
Said, in a tremulous voice, ' Why don't you speak for yourself, John? '" 

The farm in Duxbury (near Plj^mouth) on which they resided is still in 
possession of their descendants, " having never been alienated." John Al- 
den was born , 1599: died Duxbury Sept. 12, 1687: married about 

1621, Priscilla Molines. Eleven children were born, of whom eight survived 
their parents. Their second son 

Joseph^ Alden was a farmer of Bridgewater [Plymouth Co.] Mass., born 
1624; died Feb. 8, 1697. He received his farm in what is now known 
as West Bridgewater from his father, who was one of the grantees of the 
town. He married Mary, daughter of Moses Simmons junior. His son, 
Deacon 

Joseph' Alden, born 1667, a farmer of Bridgewater, lived in what is 

now South Bridgewater; died Dec. 22, 1747 ; married 1690, Hannah, 

daughter of Daniel Dunham of Plymoutli, Mass. They liad ten children, 
seven sons ; the eldest child was 

DanieP Alden, born Bridgewater, Mass., Jan. 29, 1691; died StafPord 
[Tolland Co.] Conn., May 3, 1767. He was a magistrate. He married 

1717, Abigail, daughter of Joseph Shaw. She was sister of the Rev. 

John Shaw who was grandfather of Hon. Lenmel Shaw, who was for many 
years Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. They 
had eleven children, five sons ; the second son, second child, was 

Deacon DanieP Alden, of Stafford, Conn., Cornish iuid Lebanon, N. H. 
A farmer, born Bridgewater, Mass., Sept. 5, 1720: d. Lebanon [Grafton 
Co.], N. H., May 18, 1790. He first settled in Bridgewater, whence he 
soon removed to Stafford ; was a deacon in the church, a magistrate, much 
engaged in pultlic business, often in the legislatvire and universally respected. 
About 1782, he sold his farm in Conn, and removed to Cornish [Sullivan 



Co.], N. H., where he resided eight years, when becoming infirm, he went 

to live with his eldest son at Lebanon. He married 1747, Jane, 

daiigliter of Seth Tnrner of Weymouth [Norfolk Co.], Mass., a descendant 
of Humphrey Turnfer of Scituate, Mass. She was born March 30, 1725, 
died Lebanon May 6, 1817. 

Mr. Samuel Bailey, died June 2, 1798, aged 75 years. 

In memory of Mr. John Baldwin, wlio died Dec. 7, 1777, in his 72'' year. 
Mr. Baldwin and 13 of his family died in 3 years. 

In memory of Mrs. Lucy, wife of Mr. John Baldwin, who died Jan. 2, 
1777 in her 62*^^ year. 

It is probably one of this large family that lies in close proximity to those 
whose records are the last given. Only this could be read on the headstone : 

Mr. John died Sept. 29, 1776 aged 41. 

George Edward Barrows — 1853 — 1872. [See Gould.] 

An ancient headstone, part of which was illegible, yielded this record : 

Mary wife of Bliss died Jan. 28, 1793 in 79*"^ y« 

The headstone of the next grave could not be deciphered, but the foot- 
stone showed the name 

Azariah Bliss. — The Bliss genealogy supplies the record that time has 
effaced and gives a line of four generations of progenitors of the name. 

" Jonathan Bliss, son of Thomas of Belstone, England, was born in that 
village about the year 1575 or 1580. He died 1735-6. It is not known 
who he married or when, but he had several children born to him." 

Thomas^ Bliss of Belstone parish, Devonshire, England, of Braintree 
[Norfolk Co.], Mass., and of Hartfonl, Conn., was a brother of this Jona- 
than and a son of the above-named Thomas. He was born about the year 

1580 or 1585. He married in England about 1612-1G15 Margaret 

and had ten children, of whom six were born before the family came to 
New England * * * in the autumn of 1635. He died Hartford, 
Conn.- — 1640. His youngest child was 

John'- Bliss of Longmeadow [Hampden Co.], Mass., born Hartford, 
about 1640 : died Longmeadow Sept. 10, 1702. Married Springfield, Mass., 
Oct. 7, 1767, Patience, daughter of Henry Burt. Seven children, the eld- 
est was 

John* Bliss of Enfield [Hartford Co.], and Lebanon [New Loudon Co.], 
Conn.; born Sept. 7, 1669; married Jan. 11, 1693, Anna, daughter of 
Samuel Terry of Springfield, Mass. His second wife was named llannah 
. Seven children, four sons ; the youngest child was 

Azariah* Bliss of Lebanon, Conn., and Lebanon [Grafton Co.], N. H. 
Born Lebanon, Conn., April 7, 1714: died Lebanon, N. H., — 1793: 
married April 29, 1736, Mary Tilden. The Porter genealogy gives her 
pedigree. Nathaniel^ Tilden born Tenterden, Kent Co., England, came to 
New England with his wife Lydia Bourne in 1 635 and settled in Scituate 
[Plymouth Co.], Mass. Their son Stephen^ Tilden, born 1637, married 
Jan. 15, 1662 Hannah, daughter of Thomas Little, who, April 19, 1633, 
married Anne, daughter of Richard Warren, who came to Plymouth in the 
Mayflower in 1620. Their son 

Steijlien** Tilden, born 1664, married , and had daughter 

" Mary Tilden, who married Azariah Bliss." Anne (Warren) Little, 
with her mother and four sisters came to Plymouth in the ship Ann in 1623. 



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In memory of Mrs. Sarah, wife of David Bliss who died Dec. 13, 1774, 
in her 34'*^ year. 

In memory of Mrs. Lucy y« 2'' wife of Mr. David Bliss who died April 
16, 1778 in her [age illegihlc]. 

Diivid^ Bliss was the eldest of the nine children. Of his wife Lucy, the 
compiler has found no record. He was born Lebanon Feb. 21, 1737. He 
was a farmer in the Lebanon of Conn, and of N. H. After the death of 
his second wife he removed to Hartford [Windsor Co.], Vt., where he 
probal)ly died. He married May 10, 1761, vSarah, daughter of Samuel and 
Sarah (Skinner) Porter. The genealogy of that name shows that the pa- 
rents of this daughter were married in 1736 and had nine children, Sarah 
(Porter) Bliss being the second child, born June 28, 1740, of the fifth gen- 
eration from the English emigrant John Porter, who was of Dorchester 
(since 1870 a part of the city of Boston), Mass., in 1630, and who, in Oc- 
tober 1635 I'emoved to Connecticut and died in Windsor in that province 
April 22, 1648. " She was the mother of five, perhaps six children ; " the 
three elder ones were 

Phebe, b. — , 1762, married, March 28, 1787, Nathan Durkee of Leb- 
anon, N. H. 

Sarah, b. — , 1763, married, Dec. 2, 1784, Andrew Tracy of Hartford, Vt. 

Mary, b. — , 1765, married, Apr. 1, 1784, David Blodgett of Chelsea, Vt, 

Azariah Bliss, died Sept. 28, 1814, in 76"' year his age. Clearly a 
younger brother of David and a son of Azariah and Mary (Tilden) Bliss. 
He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war from Lebanon. 

In memory of Bosworth, died 1784 (stone in part illegil)le). 

Louisa, daughter of W. W. and J. M. Gulver(?) died Oct. 20, 1874, 
JE 9 mos. 20 days. 

Deacon Joseph Dana. The face of this stone was illegible, but its re- 
verse gave the name. 

To the memory of Capt. William Dana who deceased Dec. 11, 1805, in the 
70*'' year of his age. He was one of the fii'st planters in town, was respected 
in life and at death much lamented by his acquaintances and friends. 

Johanna died Feb. 7, 1782, 18 ours old (stone chipped, in part illeg- 
ible). 

In memory of Abigail, dau. of Mr. William and Mrs. Hannah Dana who 
died March 15, 1808, in the 2'^ year of her age. 

In memory of Dyer, son of Jedediah and Martha Dana, died May 21, 
1834. (Part of the inscription below the surface of the ground.) 

In memory of Samuel W., son of Jedediah and Martha Dana, deceased 
Aug. 15, 1825, aged 6 years. 

The compiler was unable to find in the library of the New England His- 
toric Genealogical Society any work that related to this group of Danas. 
The unusual name of Dyer which will again occur in these pages as a first 
or " given " name in connection with the surname of Hyde, suggests a rela- 
tionship with that family. 

In memory of Mr. Elijah Dewey Ju^ Died Dec. 16, 1792, in his 40'"^ 
year. 

In memory of Deacon Nchemlah Estabrook, who died Feb. 10, 1787, in 
the 72^^ year of his age. 

In memory of Mrs. Anna Estabrook the virtuous consort of Deacon Es- 
tabrook who departed this life Jan. 1 6 [illegible] in her 75**' year. 



Quoting the Bliss and Estabrook genealogies published respectively in 
18<S1 and ISDl, the deatli year of Anna (Bliss) Estabrook is t'ound to be 
1778, and her husband the ancestor of the Lebanon, N. H. Estabrooks is 
shown to be of the third generation from the English emigrant. " Rev. 
Joseph'^ Estabrook, born about 1 G40 at Enfield, Middlesex Co., England ; 
came to this countiy in IGGO, * * * He entered Harvard College, 
from which he graduated in IGlH. Three years afterwards he was ordained 
as colleague of the Rev. Edward Bulkeley, minister of the church in Con- 
cord [Middlesex Co.], Mass., and on his death in 1696 became jjastor of 
the church, continuing in that office until his death at the age of 71." P^rom 
the official records of Concord the compiler takes this item : 

" The Reuerand M'^' Josei)h Eastabrook minister of Concord Dyed Sep- 
tember y*^ 17: 1711," and from the history of Watertown, Middlesex Co., 
Mass., this statement : " Capt. Hugh Mason * * * one of the very 
first settlers of Watertown, admitted freeman Mar. 4, 1 6o5, Representative 
[ten years between 1639 and 1677]. Selectman 29 years, a Lieut, as early 
as 1649 and made Capt. May 5, 1652. He died Oct. 10, 1678 aged 73. 
By wife Esther who died May 1, 1692, he had seven children." Tlie third 
daughter, third child, was "Mary, born Dec. 18, 1640: married May 20, 
1668, Rev. Joseph Estabrook of Concord." Of this marriage there were 
six children ; three sons, the third son, the fourth child, was 

Rev. Samuel- Estabrook, born Concord, Mass., June 7, 1674; died Can- 
terbury, Windham Co., Conn., June 23, 1727 : married Mar. 28, 1714, Re- 
becca, daughter of Rev. Nehemiah and Sarah (Jackson) Hobart of Newton, 
Middlesex Co., Mass., granddaughter of Rev. Peter Hobart [first minister 
of the first church of Hingham, Plymouth Co., Mass., born Hingham, Nor- 
folk Co., England, and baptized there Oct. 13, 1604.] She died Canter- 
bury, Conn., Dec. — , 1727. The genealogy of the name has record of but 
three children, of whom one was : 

Neheiuiah^ Estabrook, born Canterbury, Windham Co., Conn., Apr. 1, 
1715, resided at Mansfield, Tolland Co., Conn., where in Aug. 1735 he 
united with the Congregational church. About 1768 he went to Lebanon, 
Grafton Co., N. H.,' where he died Eel). 10, 1787. He married, Mansfield 
Sept. 2, 1736, Berthiah, daughter of Robert Paddock, who died 1743 ; 2*^, 
Oct. 18, 1744, Abigail, daughter of Deacon Experience Porter, who died at 
Mansfield 1770; 3'', Sept. 23, 1773, Anna, daughter of Ebene/.er Bliss of 
Longmeadow, Hampden Co., Mass., who died Lebanon, N. H., Jan. 16, 
1778. She was cousin of the Azariah Bliss who died in Lebanon, N. H., 
in 1793, his father John being the eldest, as her father Ebenezer was the 
youngest son of John Bliss and Patience Burt of Longmeadow. The gen- 
ealogy of that name shows that she was the oldest of eight chihh-en. The 
record reads "Joanna, born Dec. 10, 1723, married S(^i»tember 23, 1773, 
Deacon Nehemiah Estabrook of Lebanon, N. H." Children all born Mans- 
field, Conn, 
i. Samuel, bapt. Mansfield, May — , 1737 : d. in infancy. 
ii. Samuel, b. Jan. 24, 1739: d. Lebanon, N. H. : ni. Rebecca Aspen- 
wall and Phebe Palmer, 
iii. Joseph, b. May 2, 1741 : d. in army of tiie Revolution. : m. Theoda 

Porter, 
iv. Rebeckah, b. July 11, 1745: perhaps the same, m. Lebanon, N. H., 
May 12, 1774, Jeremiah Griswold. 



V. Experience, b. June 17, 1747 : a daughter d. Jan. 8, 1750. 
vi. Nehemiah. b. Aug. 27, 1749 : d. Alden, N. Y. : m. Elizabeth Slapp. 
vii. Experience, b. dune 3, 1751 : d. Feb. — , 1799: m. Jedidah Willey 
and Mary Stewart. 
Lieut. Samuel Estabrook died Jan. 2, 1823 : aged 84 years. 
Samuel* Estabrook (Nehemiah,^ Samuel,^ Joseph^), b. Mansfield, Tolland 
Co., Conn., Jan. 24, 1739, was a lieutenant, died Lebanon, Grafton Co., N. 
II., Jan. 2, 1823. The inscription on his grave stone reads " Blessed are 
they that have a new name and a white stone given them." He was a sol- 
dier of the Revolutionary war, from Lebanon. He married Jan. 23, 1766, 
Rebecca, daugliter of Peter Aspenwall of Mansfield ; after her death, Oct. 
14, 1781, Phebe Palmer. Children 

i. Al)ioail, b. Mansfield, Conn., July 9, 1767: d. Julv 26, 1767. 
ii. Berthiah, b. " " Sept. 2, 1768 : d. .July 30, 1826 : m. 

Lebanon, N. IL, May 2, 1793, Abraham Hoyt, b. Jan. 25, 1764: 
settled, Hartford, Vt., removed to Royalton, Vt. 
iii. Anna, b. Lebanon, N. H., May 21, 1770. 
iv. Rodolphus, b. Lebanon, N. H., Nov. 17, 1772, d. Lebanon, N. H. : m. 

Polly . 

V. Samuel, b. Lebanon, N. IL, Apr. 8, 1774; d. , 1823. 

vi. Rebekah, b. '^ " Feb. 9, 1775. 

vii. Zermiah, 1). " " May 16, 1777. 

viii. Eunice, b. " " Mar. 13, 1779. 

ix. Nehemiah, b. " " Apr. 12, 1783: d. Lebanon: m. .Jemima 

Quimby. 

X. Joseph,!). " " Nov. 6, 1784: m. : d. Cleveland, O. 

xi. Benjamin, b. " " Jan. 26, 1787 : m. Mary Mason. 

Rodoljihus Estabrook, died Jan. 10, 1841, aged 69 years. 

]\Irs. Polly P:stabrook died March 26, 1803,"aged 28 years, wife of Mr. 
Rodolphus Estal )rook. 

John Estabrook died Aug. 13, 1804, son of Mr. Rodolphus and Polly 
Estabrook. 

Rodolphus^ Estal)rook (Lieut. Samuel,* Nehemiah,^ Samuel,^ Joseph^), 
born Lel)anon, Grafton Co., N. H., Nov. 1772, died Lebanon Jan. 10, 1«41 : 

m. Polly , who died Mar. 26, 1803. M. 2*^^ • '^^^^ genealogy 

states that " he died in 1841 leaving a widow and eight children." The 
grave stone gives the record of John®, died Lebanon, Aug. 13, 1804, and 

the genealogy of one other " Alanson," born Lebanon, N. H., , 1807 : 

d. Cict. 20, 1859 : married , 1834, Electa W. Braley, born Promfret 

[Windsor Co.], Vt., died Jan. 22, 1887, aged 75." Children born Leb- 
anon, N. H. 

Fannie,'' born , 1836 : man-ied July 4, 186.3, Levi Woodbury Rowell. 

Leonard^ A., born , 1838 : married Oct. 19, 1868, Nettie G. Stearns : 

2'\ Jessie G. Stearns. 

SamueP Estabrook (Lieut. Samuel,* Nehemiah,^ Samuel,^ Josepli^), born 
Lebanon, Grafton Co., N. H., Apr. 8, 1774 : d. , 1823. The geneal- 
ogy of the Estabrook family states that " possibly " his wife was Betsey 
Brown, and gives record of his daughter Cynthia,® born Lebanon, N. H., 
Oct. 1806: married Sept. 29, 1823, P^lijah Paine a farmer, born May 23, 
1797: died Sept. 2, 1846: married 2''," June 22, 1848, Moses Bartholo- 
mew of Vershire [Orange] Co., Vt., who died Sept. 20, 1856. 



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Mr. Nemiah Estabrook died Dec. 21*', 1808 [rest of the inscrii)tion suuk 
below the surface of the ground]. 

Nehemiah^ Estabrook (Lieut. Samuel/ Nehemiah,* Samuel,^ Joseph/) 
born Lebanon, Grafton Co., N. H., Apr. 12, 1783 : died Lebanon, Dec. 21, 
1808 : married about 1802 Jemima Quimby. Children all born in Lebanon. 

Mary, born April 7, 1804. * Phebe, born Dec. 30, 1805. 

Merva (a daughter), b. June 14, 1807. Hannah, born July 11, 1809. 

Benjamin^ Estabrook (Lieut. Samuel,* Nehemiah,^ Samuel,^ Josejjh^), 
born Lebanon, Grafton Co., N. H., Jan. 26, 1787 ; married July 7, 1805, 
Mary Mason of Lebanon. Children : 
i. Henry*^, born Lebanon, N. H., Jan. 11, 1807 : died Green Bay, Brown 
Co., Wis., June 8, 1887 : man-ied , 1828, Elizabeth Annis How- 
ard, born near Benton, Ontario Co., N. Y., , 1808 : died Green 

Bay, , 1884. " He rose from a cabin boy to be captain and 

owner of a ship on Lake Michigan, and was known as Capt. Brooks, 
and his children go by that name." Children : 
i. Henry Alexander, b. Jan. 2, 1830 ; d. young, 
ii. Johii Westland, b. May G, 1832. 
iii. James Alexander, b. Apr. 2, 1834. 
iv. Lyman Styles, b. Oct. 4, 1836. 
V. Henry Augustus, b. Apr. 7, 1840. 
vi. Stephen Dalls, b. May 14, 1843. 
vii. Philip D. M., b. Oct.' 10, 1844. 
ii. Harriet,^ born Lebanon, N. H., Mar. 17, 1809: died Jan. 27, 1886: 

married, Lorain, Lorain Co., Ohio, , 1831, Aaron Davenport, 

who died May 22, 18M8 ; nine children ; five sons. 
iii. Sarah*^ Bowen, born Lebanon, N. H., June 12, 1811: married Nov. 
4, 1829, Royal Barney, born Lorain, Ohio, Dec. 15, 1808: died 
June 9, 1890; five children; one son. 
Joseph"* Estabrook (Nehemiah,^ Samuel," Joseph^), born Mansfield, Tol- 
land Co., Conn., May 2, 1741 : a ca})tain in the Revolutionary war, and 
died in the service ; married May 20, 1762, Theoda, daughter of Nathaniel 
Porter of Mansfield. Children all l)orn Mansfield, Conn. 
i. Mary, b. Apr. 18, 1763 : d. Oct. 31, 1766. 
ii. Aaron, b. Feb. 13, 1765 : d. July 26, 1851 : m. Sarah Gusher, 
iii. Hobart, b. Jan. 18, 1767: m.' Anna Hyde; 2'', Cynthia U. 

Traboo. 
iv. Mary, b. Feb. 9, 1769: m. Judge Chase of Cornish, N. H. 
V. Hannah, b. July 29, 1771 : m. Lebanon, N. H., Nov. 7, 1799, 

Nelson Cotton, 
vi. Porter, b. Oct. 1, 1773. 
Eliza, died Feb. 25, 1826, aged 10 years ; Theoda, died Sept. 16, 1819 ; 
daughters of Aaron and Sarah Estabrook. 

Aaron* Estabrook (Joseph,* Nehemiah,'^ Samuel,- Joseph^), born Mans- 
field, Tolland Co., Conn., Feb. 13, 1765 : died July 26, 1851 ; married Sa- 
rah Gusher, who died Dec. 6, 1857. Children : 
i. Mary Minerva, b. Sept, 21, 1809: m. Sept. 9, 1846, Lorenzo Davis, 

residence Greenwich, Hampshire Co., Mass. 
ii. Joseph, b. Aug. 28, 1811 : d. Lebanon, N. H., Oct. 10, 1879. 

iii. Eliza, ), ^^,^ d. Lebanon, N. H., Feb. 25, 1826, aged 10 years. 

iv. Theoda, j • ^°^^- d. " " Sept. 16, 1819, aged 3 years. 



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V. Theoda, b. Aug. 18, 1819 : m. May 31, 1847, Russell Freemau. 
vi. Sarah, b. Juue"22, 1822 : m. Mar! 30, 1864, Isaac Leighton. 
Joseph,*' born Lebanon, N. H., Aug. 28, 1811 : died Lebanon, Oct. 10, 
1879 : married Apr. 29, 1844, Mehetable Hall, who died Sept. I, 1863 : 
married 2'', Mar. 29, 1864, Mary Oriaue Hall of Lebanon. Children born 
Lebanon, N. H. : 

Charlotte Nancy, b. Sept. 23, 1846. 
Joseph Storrs, b. July 8, 1848, 
Martha, b. Jan. 7, 1856; d. Oct. 3, 1858. 
Herbert H., b. Feb. 2, 1863. 

In memory of Hobart Estabrook who died Mar. 4, 1825, aged 58. 
Anna wife of Hol)art Estabrook, died Feb. 7, 1804, aged 32 years. 
Hobart^ Estabrook (.Joseph,* Nehemiah,^ Samuel,^ Joseph^), born Mans- 
field, Tolland Co., Conn., Jan. 18, 1767 ; died Lebanon, Grafton Co., Mar. 
4, 1825 ; married Mar. 20, 1793, Anna, daughter of Levi Hyde, born Leba- 
non, July 8, 1772; died there Feb. 7, 1804; married 2^', Apr. 10, 1810, 
Cynthia W. Traboo, who died Lebanon, Nov. 28, 1870, aged 84. Children : 
i. Joseph, b. Dec. 7, 1793 ; m. Nancy Dickenson, 
ii. Levi, b. Sept. 2, 1796; d. Havana, Cuba, Aug. 10, 1822; un- 
married. 
Joseph,^ born (Lebanon, N. H., probably), Dec. 7, 1793; died Ander- 
son Co., Texas ; married , 1823, Nancy Dickenson of Amherst, Hamp- 
shire Co., Mass., who died Knoxville, Knox Co., Tenn., Mar. 31, 1846. 
He was a graduate of Dartmouth College, 1815, Prof, of Latin and Greek, 
Amherst College ; removed to Virginia, subsequently to Knoxville, Tenn., 
where he was president of the University of Eastern Tennessee. No chil- 
dren. 

iii. Anna Hyde, b. Lebanon, N. H., Nov. 6, 1810; d. Feb. — 

1888 ; "m. John Hurlbert. 
iv. Martha, b. Lebanon, N. H., July 24, 1812 ; d. Dec. 6, 1842 ; 
m. Dec. 18, 1840, Deacon Stephen Griswold Bliss, son of 
Ziba and Marv (Traboo) Bliss of Lebanon, N. H. Child : 
Ilobart Estabrook, b. Lebanon, N. IL, Nov. 23, 1842. 
Nehemiah^ Estaljrook (Nehemiah,^ Samuel,- Joseph^), b. Mansfield, Tol- 
land Co., Conn., Aug. 27, 1749 ; d. Alden, Erie Co., N. Y., , 1826 ; 

married, Nov. 22, 1771, Elizabeth, daughter of Major John Slapp (a Rev- 
olutionary soldier) of Lebanon, Grafton Co., N. H., wlio died Alden, • 

1H24. He was of the army of the Revolution, was at the battle of Sara- 
toga, and was sergeant of his company when discharged June 11, 1777. 
About 1810 he sold his New Hampshire farm and removed to western New 
York. Children all born Lebanon, N. H. 
i. Daniel, b. June 19, 1772 ; d. Feb. 7, 1774. 
ii. Hareldus, b. June — , 1785; m. Abigail Wilder. 

iii. Nehemiah, b. , 1790; m. Betsey Caufield. 

iv. John, b. Mar. 18, 1793 ; m. Harriet Evans. 

V. A daughter, 1). . ; m. Dr. Smalley. 

vi. Cyntliia, b. , ; m. Adams; 2'', Daniel Bailey, whose 

first wife was lier sister. 

vii. Nancy, b. , ; m. Lebanon, N. IL, Sept. 9, 1806, Joseph 

Freeman. 



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viii. Mehitable, b. , ; d. Der-.. — , ISoS ; m. Daniel Bailey. 

ix. Betsey, b. , ; d. unmarried ; a school teacher. 

X. Polly, b. , ; m. Locke of Batavia, Genesee Co., N. Y. 

Hareldus,^ born Lebanon, Grafton Co., N. H., June — , 17H5, died 

Aug. 4, 1846; married , 1815, Abigail, daughter of Abel 

Wilder of Moutpelier, Vt., born May .5," 1789; died .July 12, 
1883. "Both buried Farmingdale, Sangamon Co., 111." Five 
children, three sons. 

Nehemiah,^ born Lebanon, N. H., , 1790; died Milwaukee, 

Wis., , 1880. Married Betsey Canfield wI)o died Milwau- 
kee 1888. Had son Daniel who died in that city about 1874, 
and a daughter Henrietta who married .James Baker. 
John,^ born Lebanon, N. II., Mar. 18, 1793 ; died Alden, Erie Co., 
N. Y., Feb. 9, 1864; married. Mar. 25, 1817, Harriet, daughter 
of Nathaniel Evans, born Sept. 29, 1793 ; died Mansfield, Rich- 
land Co., Ohio, Apr. 29, 1888. Children. 
Henry,« born Alden, N. Y., Feb. 1, 1818; married Aug. 23, 1853, 
Laura S., daughter of Benjamin and Susan (Slade) Morey, born 
Hanover, Grafton Co., N. H., May 18, 1829. Her father died 

Hanover, , 1840, her mother, Alden, Oct. — , 1878, in her 

89"^ year. 
Mary'' Elizabeth, born Nov. 29, 1819; died Sandusky, Erie Co., 

Ohio, Sept. 6, 1853, buried at Alden, N. Y. ; married , 1850, 

Rev. Sherlock A. Bronson, D.D. 
Experience^ Estabrook (Nehemiah,^ Samuel,^ Joseph^), born Lebanon, 
Grafton Co., N. H., .June 3, 1751 ; died Bath, Grafton Co., N. H., Feb. — , 
1799 ; married Jedidah Willey ; 2^', Maiy Stewart. He was a graduate of 
Dartmouth College 1776 : as a Congregational minister he was first settled 
in western New York ; was at Thornton, Grafton Co., N. H., 1780-86, 
and was pastor of the church in Meriden Village, Plainfield, Sullivan Co., 
N. H., from .June 1787 to 1793. Children: 

i. Seth Willey, b. , 1785 ; m. Lebanon, N. H., Apr. 19, 1812, Han- 
nah Alden Hubbard, 
ii. Cynthia, b. Grafton Co., N. H., about 1790 ; married, d. childless, in 

Orleans Co., Vt. 
iii. Joseph, b. Bath, Grafton Co., N. H., Aug. 17, 1792 ; m. Susanna Mer- 
rill. 

iv. .John Stewart, b. , ; went South early and died there. 

v. Eathan, b. , 1793, settled Brooklyn, N. Y., was comptroller of 

that city when he died in 1859. 

vi. Hannah, b. ; lived at Bath, N. H. ; m. John Merrill, both died 

childless in INIichigan. 
Roswell S., son of Jesse and Hannah Gage, died March 23, 1826 [stone 

partially sunk.] 
Milo Gile, died June 10, 1807, aged 11 months, son of Mr. Ahira Gile 
and Ruth his wife. 

In a lot about ten by fifty feet stands a memorial structure wholly of 
granite. Its base is a cube of three feet square, upon it stands another cube 
about two and three-quarters feet high, surmounted by a cross about two 
feet in height. Upon one of the faces of the base is cut the name Greene, 
on another Gould, and on a third Wood. The compiler was informed that 



it was erected by Prof. Greene. The following inscriptions npon it relate 
to that family : 

Henry Hill, son of Maxson and Susan Hill Greene of Rhode Island, 
1792-1865. 

In memory of Sarah, wife of Henry Greene who died Oct, 19, 1821, aged 
28 years. 

Clarissa, 2'^ wife, 1798-1878, dau. of Benjamin and Ruth B. Wood. 

Benjamin Franklin, son of Henry H. and Sarah W. Greene, 1817-1895 ; 
a graduate in 1842 of the Rens Polytechnic Institute, and director of that 
institution from 1847 to 1859 : afterwards prof. math. U. S. Navy. [The 
Greene Genealogy says he Avas a childless widower in 1894.] 

Mary Elizalieth his wife, Dau. of .Joseph and Elizabeth Chambers Wickes 
of Chestertown, Maryland. 1824-1850. 

Mary Burdick , 1835, dau. of H. H. and C. W. Greene, loved sis- 
ter and companion of Ji. F. G. for 40 years. [The family genealogy says 
she was living 1894 unmarried.] Children [of Henry Hill Greene] not 
elsewhere inscribed : 

Susan Hill, 1819-1881. 

Henry Maxson, 1823-1824. 

Edward, IS 25-. 

Elijah Osgood, 1830-1846. 

George Maxson, 1837-1878. 

William Henry, 1839-1855. 

Jesse Wood, 1842-1895. 

The Genealogy of the family of Greene (published 1894) has the fol- 
lowing : 

" Henry Hill Green was son of Maxson and Susanna Hill Greene (said 
Maxson born about 1768) prol)al>le son of Joshua'' Greene (John,*^ Benja- 
min,^ John^), born about 1734 and lived in Charlestown [Washington Co.], 
Rhode Island. * It is thought that his wife was ]\Iary Maxson.'] John^ was 
of a ' trading post near the present village of Wickford, in North Kingston 
[Washington Co.], R. I., in 1639.' This son of Maxson and Susanna 
(Hill) Green was born in Charlestown, R. I., in 1792; died West Leba- 
non, N. H., 1865, was of New London, Conn., in 1812, whence he removed 
to West Lebanon, where he married Sarah Wood. Children, born West 
Lebanon : 

i. Prof. Benjamin F., 1). , 1817; was a childless widower in 1894. 

ii. Susanna Hill, b. 1819 ; married and died St. Louis, 1882. 

iii. Henry Maxson, b. 1823 ; died 1824. 

iv. Edward, b. 1826; died 1826. 

V. Elijah Osgood, b. 1830; died 1846 from accident. 

vi. Elizabeth Osgood, b. 1832 ; married E. F. Gould ; had one son. 

vii. Mary Burdick, b. 1835; unmarried 1894. 

viii. George Maxson, b. 1837 ; died 1878 ; married Ellsworth of Conn. 

ix. William Henry, b. 1839; died 1858. 

X. Jesse Wood, b. 1842 ; married, had one daughter." 

Edward F. Gould, P* Lieut. 8'^ Vt. Vols. 1842-1891. 

Elizalieth Osgood Ins wife, dau. of H. H. and C. W. Greene, 1832 

Their children : 

Mary Clarissa, 1866-1868. 
William Henry, 1869- 



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George Edward Barrows, son of E. O. G. and first husband Geo. W. 
Barrows, 1853-1872. 

In another part of the cemetery and with a different spelhng of the sur- 
name two headstones were found. 

In memory of Irene, consort of Elijali Goold, who died Oct. 12, 1812, 
aged 33 years. 

In memory of Harry Goold, son of Mr. EUjah and Mrs. Irene Goold, 
Deceas'' Mar. 14, 1807, in the 2'' year of his age. 

The Gould Genealogy, published 1895, gives his pedigree. 

Zaccheus^ Gould, born 1589, resided at Ilemel Hampstead and Great 
Missenden, Hertfordshire, England, came to New Eno'land about 1638; 
probably lived for a short time at Weymouth [Norfolk Co.], Mass., and 
then at Lynn ; but established himself at Ipswich (Topstield), where he died 
in 1668. [Topsfield, once a part of Ipswich, and Lynn are in Essex Co., 
Mass.] By wife Phebe, who died Sept. 20, 1663, he had five children, one 
son : 

John,- born June — , 1635, married Sarah Baker and had eight children, 
five sons. The second son, third child, was 

Thomas,^ born Feb. 1666, married Mary Yates of Harwich, who was the 
mother of nine children, six sons ; the second son, second child, was 

Jacob,* born Jan. 1703, married Dorothy Goodrich ; eight children, four 
sons ; the third son, sixth child, was 

Elijah,^ born Aug. 1743, married Eunice Patch ; ten children, eight of 
record, three sons, five dans. ; the second son, fifth child, was 

Elijah'' Gould or Goold, born Lunenburg [Worcester Co.], Mass., Dec. 
7, 1775, died Nov. 15, 1847 ; married Nov. 10, 1799, Irene Wright of Leb- 
anon [Grafton Co.], N. H., born Dec. 21, 1779 ; died Oct. 19, 1812 ; mar- 
ried 2'^ Nov. 14, 1813, Eunice Wright, sister of Irene, died Nov. 14, 1826. 
Lived Lebanon, N. H. Children all born Lebanon : 

i. Horace, b. June 12, 1800. 

ii. Mary Ann P., b. Apr. 21, 1802 ; lived Lebanon ; d. June 15, 1880 ; 
m. ■ Hoffman. 

iii. Ilenrv, b. Sept. 26, 1805 ; d. March 14, 1807. 

iv. Henry, b. Dec. 18, 1808. 

v. Irene" b. Sept. 29, 1812 ; d. Sept. 19, 1890 ; m. Winslow Pope, lived 
Kingsley Falls, Province Quebec, Canada. 

vi. Charles, h. Sept. 18, 1814; d. Oct. 1, 1817. 

vii. Lucina, b. Dec. 9, 1816; d. Oct. 30, 1822. 

viii. Elias L., b. June 29, 1824; m. , 1847, Abby Tukey ; 2i, 1849^ 

Caroline Lombard. 

Mr. Oliver Griswold, one of the first settlers in this town, died Feb"" 11, 
1804, aged 64 years. 

Mrs. Experience Griswold, wife of Mr. Oliver Griswold, died Sept. 12*'', 
1807, aged 67 years. 

Here lie^ the remains of Mr. .Jeremiah Griswold, who departed this life 
Sept. 6*'', 1795, in the 53*^ year of his age. 

Capt. Nathaniel Hall, died Feb. 2'', 1821, in the 75*"^ year of his age. 

Mehetable, wife of Capt. Nathaniel Hall. [Stone partially below surface.] 

In memory of Mr. Silas Hall, son of Capt. Nathaniel Hall, who died 
Mar. G* 1800, ^.15 years and 4 days. 



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Cynthia Hall, died Nov. 8, 1789, aged 2 yrs and 28 days, dau. of Capt. 
Hall and Mehetable his wife. 

The Halls of New England, published 1873, give the line of this family to 
John Hall who came from Coventry, Warwickshire, England, to Charles- 
town [since 1874 a part of Boston], Mass., in 1630. Probably in the fleet 
with Gov. Winthrop. The PZnglish town is about 95 miles northwest of 
London. He was one of the oi-iginal members of the first Church of 
Charlestown which became by removal the first Church of Boston. Those 
who remained where the settlement was commenced Nov. 2, 1632, organ- 
ized another church ; among them were John Hall and his wife Bethia. 
He was of Barnstable about 1640, and of that part Yarmouth that was set 
oif as the town of Dennis as early as 1653. These towns are on "Cape 
Cod" and in Barnstable Co., Mass. He died July 23, 1696, and was 
buried on his farm. He is said to have had 12 children — 10 sons are of 
record. The genealogy (page 212) has the following : 

" Arunah Hall of Lebanon, N. H., in 1865 when he was 85 years old, 
said that he often heard his father say that his emigrant ancestor had 12 
eons and no daughters." 

William^ Hall, born Yarmouth, liaptized June 8, 1651 ; died Mansfield 
[Tolland Co ], Conn., June 11, 1727. He was taxed in Yarmouth in 1676, 
removed to Norwich, Conn., and afterwards to Mansfield. He married 

Esther or Hester , who her gravestone states died Feb. 14, 1726, 

JE. 70. Niimber and names of all the children unknown. They had sons 
Isaac, William, James and 

Theophilas^ Hall, born , died Aug. 29, 1747 ; married Mar. 20, 

1720, Ruth, daughter of Ensign Jonathan Sargent of Mansfield, Conn. 8 
children, 3 sons ; the eldest son, third child, was 

Nathaniel^ Hall, born Mansfiald, Conn., died New Haven [Addison Co.], 
Vt., at the house of his son Richard, July 27, 1816, JE. 92. Married 
Nov. 7, 1745, Martha, daughter of Capt. Samuel Storrs of Mansfield, died 
1808. 11 children, 6 sons all born Mansfield. The eldest child was 

Nathaniel^ Hall [his sister Ruth, b. Mar. 27, 1751 ; m. Mar. 21, 1777, 
Nathaniel Storrs of Lebanon, N. H.], born Aug. 13, 1746 ; died Lebanon 
[Grafton Co.], N. H., Feb. 2, 1821 [gravestone';]. Married Feb. 18, 1768, 
Mehetable, daughter of Cornelius Storrs of Mansfield, who died Mar. 13, 
1830. He was a soldier of the Revolution, was present at the surrender 
of Burgoyne at Saratoga. He was caj^tain of militia. The genealogy 
states that after he was engaged to marry, Mehetable's grandfather Storrs 
gave him a tract of land in Lebanon, N. H., then a wilderness, if he would 
settle on it, " which he was reluctant to do on account of the hardships to 
which it would subject his wife." But she " settled the business by telling 
him if he did not go, she would not marry him." Children, all born 
Lebanon, N. H. : 

Storrs, b. Jan. 5, 1770 ; m. ; d. Randolph, Vt. ; had family but died 

early. 
Dan, b. Apr. 10, 1771 ; d. Lebanon, N. H. 
Ira, b. Dec. 20, 1772 ; d. Middle Granville, Washington Co., N. Y., 

1816; m. Rebecca Parker. 10 cliildren. 
Martha, b. Sept. 21, 1774; m. Mr. Freeman of Lebanon, N. H. ; 

had large family. 
Nathaniel, b. Sept 18, 1776 ; d. Oct. 30, 1825 ; residence Whitehall, 
N. Y. ; m. Esther, dau. Peter Parker. 



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Orla, b. June 5, 1778 ; d. about 1853 ; resided Granville, near Ira ; m. 
Amelia Spraije [4 children, one of them George Nelson Hall, m. 
about 1845, Emily Martin of Lebanon, N. II.] 
Arunah, b. Mar. 10, 17.S0 ; had a family and lived on homestead Leb- 
anon, N. H., in 1872. 
Silas, b. Oct. 12, 1787 ; [gravestone inscription if correctly copied d. 
Mar. 6, 1800, JE. 15 ys. 4 days.] 

Cynthia, h. ; [gravestone inscription if correctly copied d. Nov. 

8, 1790, JE. 2 vs. 28 days.] 
Polly, b. July 3, 1790; m'. B. Bowen ; Grafton [Windham Co.] Vt. 
Mary Hall, died April 27, 1838, aged 67 yrs. If tliis Mary Hall is 
of the same branch as Capt. Nathaniel, the compiler is unable to 
discover the relationship. 
In memory of Payne son of Mr. Jonathan and Polly Hamilton, who 
died Apr. 2d, 1794, JE. G yrs. (See record of Elizabeth Lathro[), mother 
of Jonathan Hamilton.) 

In memory of Mr. Moses Ilebard who was born Apr. 21, 1719 ; in 
Lebanon, N.'ll. ; died March 7''' 1813 in the 94th year of his age. 

Mrs. Hannali Hel)ard, consort of Moses Hebard, died , 1803, 

aged 77 years. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Hebard, consort of Moses Hel)ard Jun"", died Mar. 8, 
1786, aged 37 years. 

Eunice, daughter of Mr. Moses Ilebard Jun"" and Mrs. Elizabeth his 
wife, died Aug. 5, 1777, aged 2 years. 

Moses 3d, son of Mv. Moses Hebard and Mrs. Hannah his wife, died 
Sept. 27, 1789, aged 2 weeks. 

George Hubbard died July 2, 1839, aged 74. 

Mehitable, wife of George Hid)l>ard, died June 7, 1832, aged 68 yrs. 
In reference to Moses Hel)ard, the compiler's assistant co])ied his head- 
stone inscription so that the copy stated that he was born in Lelianon, N. 
H., in 1719. This part of the inscription maybe an error of the stone 
cutter, but it is clearly an error ; the town was not settled till many years 
later than 1719. Without changing the form of the inscri])tion coj)y, it 
has been made to conform to the facts l)y punctuation. 

The llibbard genealogy gives the line of the early settlers of Lebanon : 

Robert' Hebard, born Salisbury [Wiltshire], England, l)aptized Mar. 

13, 1613; died, Beverly, [Essex Co.] Mass., after Apr. 9, 1684, the date 

of his will, and June 24 of that year when it was probated. He married 

in England, Joan or floanna and came to Salem between 1635 and 

1639, and settled in that part of tlie town that was set o(f as Beverly in 
1668. She was executrix of her husband's estate. She died before Apr. 
G, 169G; at that date her son John was appointed administrator as her 
successor, she having " deceased." 10 children born Salem; 4 sons, 3d 
son, Gth child, was : 

Rolx'rt^ Hebard, born, baptized Mar. 7, 1648; died Windham [Wind- 
ham Co.], Conn., Apr. 29, 1710. United with the church of Wenham, 
Essex C(j., Mass. 1694; married Mary Wallace of Wenham and settled 
there, remaining till with his family he removed to Windham in 1700. His 
wife died Mar. 7, 1736. 11 children, 5 sons; the 2d son, 3d child, was: 

Joseph* Hebard, born Wenham [Essex Co.], Mass., May 18, 1677; died 
Windham, in county of same name. Conn., Eeb. 28, 1755 ; married Apr. 
30, 169S, Abigail Kendall, who died Dec. 5, 1756. 9 children, 3 sons ; the 
youngest child was : 



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Moses* ITebard, boni "VVindliam [Wiiidham Co.], Conn., Apr. 10, 1719 
[gravestone lias Apr. 21, 1711)], died Lebanon, Grafton Co., N. IT., March 
— , l<Si;5 : married IMar. 31, 1744, Hannah Murdock [born abont 1726; 
died Tiebanon , 180.'5, aged 77 years, gravestone]. In 1790 he re- 
moved from Windham to Stiirbi'idge [Worcester Co.], Mass., and in 1797 
to L(4)anoii, N. II. CliiMrcji, all born in Windham, Conn.: 

i. Moses, b. June 20, 174') ; m. Elizabeth Van Task ; 2d, Hannah Aklen. 

ii. Eleazer, b. July 27, 1747. 

iii. James, b. Jan. 27, 1749. 

iv. Siil)mit, b. Dec. 10, 1752. 

V. AIj)luus, b. St'pt. IT), 1754; enlisted in Continental army July 10, 
177.') ; d, in (^amp Aug. 29, 1775. 

vi. Koger, b. Apr. 4, 1757.' 

vii. Levi, 1). Apr. 15, 1759. 

viii. Hannah, b. Nov. 10, 17G1 ; d. Feb. 11, 1800 ; m. Theodocius Par- 
sons. 

ix. Salmon, b. Feb. 29, 17f)4. 

X. Kunice, b. July 19, 17G9 . d. Nov. 10, 177G. 

]VIoses° llebard, boi'u Win<lham [Windham Co.], Conn., June 20, 1745 ; 
died Alden [Erie Co.], N. Y, ; married June 8, 1770, Elizabeth Van Task 
of Goshen [Orange Co.], N. Y., who died Lebanon, [Grafton Co., N. H.] 
March 8, 1786; married 2(1, Hann;di, daughter of that Deacon Daniel Al- 
den who died Lebanon, N. II., May 19, 1790. She was born Stafford 

[Tolland Co.], Conn., , 1750. When Moses Hebard, Jr., was 24 

yeai"s old he was of AVyoming [Luzerne Co.], I'enn. * * * * When re- 
turning \w, stopped at Goshen and there married his first wife. He first 
settleil in Lebanon, N. II., and hel[)ed survey the town. In 1822 he re- 
nu)vt>d to that part of Clartmce now Alden, N. Y., so named from his sec- 
ond wife's maiden name, who was a descendant of John and Priscilla 
(]\Iollius) Alden, both of whom were of the IMayflower's passengers to 
Plymoutli, Mass., in 1620. Both Moses and Hannah (Alden) Hebard 
dit'd in the western New York town, he about six months after their arri- 
val and she a few years later. Children, all born Lebanon, N. II. : 

i. Aaron Moses, b. Feb. 6, 1771 ; m. Susan Story. 

ii. Eunice, b. July 7, 1775 ; d. Lebanon, N. II., Aug. 5, 1777. 

iii. Eunice, b. Oct. 27, 1779 ; m. Nathan Jones of Attica, Wyoming Co., 
N. Y. 

iv. Pollv, b. Sei)t. 4, 1780; m. Rev. Reuben Mason of Lyme, Grafton 
Co., N. IL 

V. rhilena, b. Feb. i;5, 1782; m. Foster. 

vi. Ihinnah, b. Jan. 21, 178'.) ; m. Seth Estabrook of Alden, N. Y. 

vii. John, b. Mar. 14, 1798; resided on old homestead farm. 

viii. Amanda, b, Oct. 18, 1799. . 

ix. Stoi-y, b. Mar. 17, 1802; d. Isle of Malta, June oO, 1841 ; a mis- 
sionary. 

X. Susan, b. June L"), 181 ;>. 

xi. Harriet, b. Mar. 24, 1817. 

xii. Norman, b. Sept. Ki, 1819. 

xiii. Saruh, b. Nov. 16, 1822. 

Charles Hill, died Feb. 5 [illegible] G5th year [a soldier m the Revolu- 
tionary War from Lebanon] . 

Simon P. Hollmau, dec'* Oct. 19, 1830, aged 5G. 



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In memory of Hornet: II. IIofTman, who died Oct. 2o, 18.01, aged 'ZU 
years. 

William G. Holmari, Mar. 14, 1841— Nov. 23, 1891. 

Aaron Ilutchin.soi), died Apr. 24, 1843, in the 82'' year of lii.s age. 

IVIrs. Eunice Ilutcliinson, died July 31, 1830, aged 72 years. 

Jeremiah Huntington, June 8, 1794 [stone broken]. See record 

of Abigail Huntington Kiinl)a]l. 

The genealogy of liis name, puljlished 1863, gives his pedigree, and 
states that, traditionally, William,' the first of the name to land in N(;w 
England, was " a son of Simon, who is said to have died while on the 
voyage to this couutr\-, and of Margaret Baret." The sixth report of the 
Record Commissioners of Boston, published 1881, " containing the Koxbury 
Land and Church Records," supports this tradition. As Roxijury (annexfid 
to the City of Boston in 18G8) adjoined the old town of Boston, it is prao 
tically certain that the family landed at its harbor front, and the mfjmlter- 
sliip of the widow Margaret in the church at Roxbury, of which thf. Rev. 
John Eliot (sometimes called the Apostle to the Indians) was minister, 
fixes the date of immigration. His register has this title: "A r(;corde of 
such as adjoyned themselves vnto the fellowship of this Church of Christ 
at Roxborough : as also of such children as they had when they joyned, 
& of such as were borne vnto them vnder the holy Cov(;nant of this Church 
who are most pperly the seede of this Church" (Rec. Corn. Rej»ort, ]>. 73). 
On page 79 of the report the following record appears : " Margret Hunt- 
ington widow; she came in the yeare 1G33, her liusband dyed by the way 
of the small pox, she brought chihlren with her." 

William^ Hunting^ton, supposed to be the son of Simon and Margaret 
(Baret) Huntington, was of Salisbury, Rlssex Co., Mass., as early as 1G40; 
dierl about 1G89; married Joanna Bayley. He removed from Mass. to 
Conn., wherf his son 

Deacon Christopher- Huntington was born, Norwicli, in New London 
Co., Nov. — , IGGO. He was the father of 

Jeremiah^ Huntington, born Norwich, Dec. 20, 171.0; died Lel)anon, 
Grafton Co., N. H., June 18, 1794; married Nov. 11, 1744, Sarah, dauidi- 
ter of John Reynolds of Norwich and Lydia Lor'l of Lyme [New London 
Co.], Conn., born Nov. 21, 1720 ; dif<l April -0, 1747 ; marrit-il 2d, Fed). 22, 
1748, Hannah, daughter of Elnsign Isaac and Elizabeth (Ijrewsf^-r) Wat- 
rous of Lyme. Children, all born at Norwich : 

i. Asa, b. Sept. 28, 174.0 ; d. Oct. 28, 174G. 

ii. Sarah, b. Dec. 1-0, 1748: d. Sept. 8, 1840. 

iii. Jeremiah, b. F<ih. 8, 17.01; d. Shaftsburv, Vt.. 1831; m. 

Bates. 

iv. Asa, b. Feb. 8, 17o3; rn. Mary Marsh; both died Canaan, Conn. 

V. Samuel, b. Feb. 24, 1700; d. Virginia; unrn. ; Rev. soldier. 

vi. Eliiis, b. Feb. 23, 17-07 ; d. Lebanon, N. H. ; m. Mrs. Mary (Eaton) 
West, widow Seth West. 

vii. Christopher, Ij. May 21, 1709; d. South: Revolutionary sol- 
dier. 

viii. Andrew, b. Nov. 14, 17G1 ; d. Pittsford, N. Y. 

ix. Hannah, b. Mar. 24, 17G4; d. 1832; m. Noah Worcester. 

X. Hezekiah, b. Sejjt. 1, 17GG; d. 1830, while on a journey to 

the West. 



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Sarali^ Huntington (Jeremiah,^ Chi'istopher,^ William^), born Norwich 
[New London Co.], Dec. 15, 1748; died Sept. 8, 184G ; married Feb. 2, 
1775, Joniitlian, son of Edmund Freeman of Mansfield [Tolland Co.], 
Conn. " They removed immediately to Hanover [Grafton Co.], N, H., 
where he had established himself, being with his father and some of his 
brothers and uncles of the same name ; among the original pi-oprietors of 
the townsliij) " under the charter of 17G1. Children: 

i. Peyton R., b. Nov. 14, 1775; graduate Dartmouth 1795. 

ii. Jonathan, b. May 28, 1777; m. Whitehouse. 

iii. Christ02:>her, b. Feb. 3, 177!). 

iv. Edward, b. May G, 1781 ; m. Philura Hough of Lebanon and 
Elizabeth Duncan of Grantham, N. H. 

V. Sarah, b. Aug. 2, 1783. 

vi. Asa, b. Jan. 9, 1788; graduate Dartmouth 1810; m. Frances At- 
kinson of Dover, N. H. 

Elias* Huntington (Jeremiah,^ Christopher,'^ William^), born Norwich 
[New London, Co.], Conn., Feb. 23, 1757; died Lebanon, N. H. ; mar- 
ried IMrs. Mary (Eaton) West, widow of Seth West. Children : 

i. Elias,^ b. Lebanon, N. H., Jidy 18, 1797 ; d. Lebanon Feb. G, 1825 ; 
m. Feb. 18, 1818, Lucinda Putnam. Children: 

Fanny M.,« b. Lebanon, June 4, 1820; d. Hanover, N. H., 

Dec. 9, 1851, num. 
Stephen Newton, b. Lebanon, Aug. 9, 1822 ; m. Hanover, N. H., 
Apr. 30, 1844, Mary Bridgeman. Children: Ellen M.'^ and 
Fanny C." 

ii. Mary,^ b. Lebanon, N. H., , 1799 ; d. Aj^r. 4, 1830 ; m. Daniel 

Richardson. Children, born at Lebanon : 

Daniel Augustus,*' m. and lived Lel)anon 1863. 

Mary, ; m. Daniel Hinckley of Lebanon. 

Elias Huntington, grad. Dartmouth 1850 ; m. Stevens ; 

pastor 1st C'hurch, Dover, N. H. 
Andrew^ Huntington, M.D. (Jeremiah,^ Christopher,^ William^), born 
Norwich [New London Co.], Conn., Nov. 14, 1761 ; died Pittsford [Mon- 
roe Co.], N. Y., , 1845, settled Hanover [Grafton Co.], N. H., where 

in 1787 he married Lydia Davis of Lebanon [Grafton Co.], N. H., born 
May 1, 1759. In 1830 removed to Pittsford. Children: 

■ Andrew,^ M.D.,b. Hanover, ; d. Pittsford, N.Y., Mar. 12, 1861 ; 

m. 1st Lydia Munroe of Shaftsbury [Bennington Co.], Vt., where 
he first settled, who d. Pittsford, Mar. 31, 1838 ; m. 2d Sarah Up- 
john, an English lady, and 3d Widow Tooker of Pittsford. 
Asa, b. Hanover, Nov. 12, 1791; resided there 1863; m. Achsah, 
daughter of Samuel Slade, who d. Feb. 2, 1834; m. 2d widow Mary 
Redington of Lt^]>anon, N. II., daughter of Hon. Stephen Maine of 
Hartland, Vt. Cliildreu : 

Heury^ Slade, M.D., b. Sept. 11, 1818 ; d. Pentield [Ontario 

Co.], N. Y. ; m. Jane Lovett. 
Sarah, b. Dec. 16, 1819; d. Nov. 17, 1852, unmarried. 
Hannah Worcester, b. Aug. 7, 1821 ; ni. Sept. 16, 1853, 0. S. 

Ingalls of Hanover, N. H. 
Alice" Swift, b. Nov. 9, 1823 ; m. Mar. 16, 1848, 0. S. Ingalls of 
Hanover, N. H. ; d. Jan. 21, 1853. 



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Fanny, b. Jan. 18, 182"); m. Dr. George E. Sj)enc(n', i-csidonce 

Laconia, N. II. 
William, b. Nov. 11, 1828 ; d. June 6, 1853, unmarried. 
E:d\vard, b. .July 4, 1831 ; d. Mar. 3, 1858. 
Samuel, b. Hanover, May 1 (>, 179-4; d. Hanover, Jan. 17, 1825; in. 
Nov. 11, LS17, Eunice .Skide of Hanover, sister of his brother Asa's 
wife. 
Lydia, b. Hanover, Nov. IC), 1790; d. May 5, 1833; m. Barzilhii 
Bush, M.l)., of r.roekport [Monroe Co.], N. Y. 
Hannah* Huntington (Jeremiah,^ Christopher,'^ William'), born Norwich 

[New London Co.], Conn., Nov. 24, 17(54; died , 1832; married 

May 23, 1798, as his 2d wife. Rev. Noah Worcester, D.D., the minister of 
Thornton [Grafton Co.], N. H., who died at Brighton [since 1874 i)art of 
Boston], Mass., Oct. 31, 1837, aged 79 years. No cliildren. 

Hezekiah* Huntington (Jeremiali,^ Christopher,- William^), born Nor- 
wich [New London Co.], Se[)t.. 1, 17()r); died , 1.S30, wliih^ on a jour- 
ney West. Married Esther, eldest daughter of Samuel Shide of Hanover, 
N. H. Settled in that town, but after some years removed to Haverhill 
[Gi-afton Co.], N. H., where his wife died. Childi-en : 
Fanny, ^ m. Hosea S. Baker, a farmer of Haverhill. 
Esther, m. Ezra Niles, " " " " 

Elihu Hvde, Esq., died Oct. 9, 1815 [stone partly buried]. 

Mrs Sarah, wife of Elihu IIy<le, Es<i., died Mar. 31, 18U8, in the 73d 
year of age. 

In memory of Richard Hyde, son of Elihu and Sarah, died (_)ct. 4, 1772 
[stone partly buried]. 

In memory of Levi Hyde, who died Jan. 12, 181 G, aged 80; also his 
wife Jemima, who died July 10, 17!)3, aged 57. 

Mr. John de, died Sept. 29, 1776, aged 41 . [inscrii)tioii par- 
tially illegible.] 

Elizaljeth, wife of John Hyde, afterwards married Abel Wright. She 
was born 1737, died May 14, 1808 [and was buried in the Uydv. burial 
lot]. 

The stone bearing date Sept. 29, 1776, is clearly that of Jolm Hyde of 
the fifth generation from the emigrant. 

William^ Hyde, who, according to the genealogy of the name, was of 
Hartford, Conn., in 1636; died Norwich [New Loudon Co.], Conn., Jan. 
6, 1681. He had son 

Samuel,'-^ born Hartford aliout 1637 ; died 1677 aged 40 years; married 
1659, Jane Lee. They had 8 children ; 5 sons ; the 3d son, 3d child, was 

AVilliam^ Hyde (Samuel,^ William'), born Norwich, Coim., Jan. 1670; 
died there Aug. 8, 1759. Married Jan. 2, 1695, Anne, daughter of Rich- 
ard Bushnell of Norwich, born Dec. 4, 1674, died July — , 1745. They 
had 10 children, 7 sons ; the 4th son, 4th child, was 

Ezra* Hyde (William,'' Samuel,'- William^), born Norwich, Conn., Nov. 
6, 1709, d.'in that town July 18, 1741 ; married Mar. 30, 1730, Elizabeth, 
daughterof Capt. John Leffinwell of Norwich, liorn Norwich Dec. 12, 1713. 
They had 6 children, 3 sons. Tlie eldest child was 

" john^ Hyde (Ezra,* William,^ Samuel,'- William^), born Norwicli [New 
Loudon Co.], Conn,, July 14, 1736. He married Elizabeth Baldwin and 



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died, S. P." The information conveyed by the abbreviation of a French 
phrase, that he died without posterity, is confirmed by the Baldwin gene- 
alogy. 

" John^ Baldwin (Thomas,^ John^), born Norwich, Conn., Mar. 8, 1704; 
married May 30, 1734, Lncy Metcalf of Leiianon [New Loudon Co.], 
Conn. He was of Stafford, Conn., 1737-1739. He lived afterwards in 
Mansfield, Conn. He removed with his family to Hanover [Grafton Co.], 
N. H., where he died." 8 children, 4 sons, the eldest daughter, 2d child 

was " Elizabeth, born , 1737 ; married Sept. 12, 1758, John Hyde ; no 

children." 

Richard^ Hyde (William,'' Samuel,'-' William^), the 3d sou of his father, 
and brother of Ezra,^ born Norwich [New London Co.], Conn., Feb. 19, 
1707; died Norwich Dec. 22, 1785, married Nov. 12, 1730, Anne, daugh- 
ter of John Tracy of Norwich, born in that town Nov. 29, 1708, and died 
there Apr. 20, 1762. They had 7 children, 4 sons ; the 2d son, 2d child, 
was 

Elihu^ Hyde (Richard,^ William,'' Samuel,- William^), bora Norwich, 
Conu., Aug.' 3, 1734; died Lebanon [Grafton Co.], N. H., Oct. 9, 1815; 
married Mar. 26, 1766, Sarah Griswold. They settled in Norwich, but 
removed to Lebanon, N. H., where he was one of the first magistrates of 
that place. She died there about 1808. [Gravestone Mar. 31, 1808.] 
Childreu born Norwich : 

Elihu,« b. Jan. 2, 1767 ; d. Chelsea [Orange Co.], Vt., 1 831 ; m. 

Charlotte Partridge ; 2d, Mary Hatch. 

Asaph, b. Mar. 11, 1769 ; d. Ashford, N. Y. ; m. Dorothy Converse. 

Richard, b. June, 4, 1772 ; d. in childhood [gravestone, Oct. 4, 1772]. 

Sarah, b. May 18, 1776 ; d. Cornish, N. H., m. Thomas Hough. 

Asaph" Hyde, born Norwich, Conn., March 11, 1769; died Ashford 

[Cattaraugus Co.], N. Y., Nov. 26, 1836 ; married Lebanon [Grafton Co.], 

N. H., Dorothy Converse, born Stafford [Tolland Co.], Conn., , 1774; 

died Nov. 10, 1835. Children born Lebanon: 

i. Ann^ Tracy, b. Feb. 8, 1796 ; d. Lebanon, N. H., Feb. 6, 1800, 
ii. Sarah Griswold, b. Oct. 24, 1798; m. Elam Alden ; settled 

Windsor, Vt., living there 1856. 
iii. Richard William, b. O'ct. 11, 1800 ; m. 1831, Abigail Dill, b. Leb- 
anon ; settled Montjielier, Vt. 
iv. Zebediah, b. Feb. 9, 1803 ; was living Bradford [Orange Co.], Vt. 
V. Samuel Alden, b. Jan. 13. 1805 ; d. Oxford [Chenango Co.], N.Y. 

1843. 
vi. Elisha, b. Apr. 2, 1807, was living San Francisco, Cal., 1856. 
vii. Harriet M., b. Sept. 3, 1809, was living Moutello, Maine, 1856. 
viii, Mary Ann, b. Oct. 13, 1811 ; d. Cornish, N. H., June 25, 1829, 
unmarxied. 
Sarah® Hyde, born Norwich, Conn., May 18, 1776 ; died Cornisli [Sul- 
livan Co.], *N. H., , 1856; married Aug. 4, 1799, Thomas Hough, 

born Norwich, July 7, 1768; died Lebanon [Grafton Co.], N. H., Apr. 
28, 1815 ; married 2d, June 4, 1816, John Lovell Kimball of Cornish, N. H., 
who died Lebanon, N. H., Oct. 1, 1836. Children born Lebanon: 
Elihu^ Hyde, b. June 4, 1800; d. June 2. 1810. 
Dyer, b. Feb. 2, 1802 ; d. May 24, 1815. 

Lucy, b. Feb. 18, 1804; m. Dec. 18, 1827, .Joshua Barnard Wellman, 
b. Cornish, Feb. 10, 1797 ; both living there 1856, 2 children. 



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John^ Hyde (Samuel,^ William') the 2d son of his father and brother of 
William,' born Norwich [New London Co.], Conn., Dec. — , 1GG7 ; died 
Norwich, July 2 G, 1727; married March 3, 1698, Experience, daui^hter 
of Caleb Abel of Norwich ; she died Oct. 24, 1763. They had 9 children ; 
4 sons, the eldest child was 

John'* Hyde (Jolm,^ Samuel," William^), born Norwich, Conn., Dec. 5, 
1698 ; died Norwich, Oct. 22, 17G2 ; married, Sept. 21, 1721, Sarah, 
daughter of John Haskins of Taunton [Bristol Co.], Mass., who died Nor- 
wich, Sept. G, 1753. He married 2d, Dec. — , 1755, P^lizabeth Backus of 
Norwich, who died Nov. 2G, 1767 ; 11 children, 6 sons ; the 4th son, 4th 
child, was 

Levi^ Hyde (John,^ John,' Samuel," William^), born Norwich, Conn., 
Oct. 24, 1735; died Lebanon [Grafton Co.], N. H., Jan. 12, 1816; mar- 
ried, about 1767, Jemima Martin, born Windham [Windham Co.], Conn., 
Mar. 12, 1737; died Lebanon, July 16, 1793. He was a surveyor and 
went to New Hampshire in 1761, to survey the town of Lebanon for the 
proprietors, many of whom were from Norwich, Lebanon and Windham. 
He was one of seven men who passed the succeeding winter in a log cabin 
upon the banks of the Connecticut river in the new town. He was a sol- 
dier of the Revolution. They had six children born Lebanon : 

Martha,® b. about 1768 ; d. aged 5 years. 

Hannah, b. " 1770; d. " 3 " 

Anna, b. July 3, 1772 ; d. Feb. 7, 1804 [gravestone] ; m. Hobart, 
Estalirook of Lebanon. 

Martha, b. Dec. 8, 1774; m. Joseph Martin, June 15, 1820. She 
was living in Lebanon, 1857. 

Hannah, b. Nov. 19, 1776; m. Deacon Jesse, son of Nathaniel Storrs 
of Lebanon. 

Persis, b. Apr. 26, 1879 ; m. Capt. John Wood. 
Hannah,® b. Nov. 19, 1776 ; d. probably Painsville [Lake Co.] Ohio, 
as she was living there in 1857. Her husband, Deacon Jesse Storrs, set- 
tled in Orford [Grafton Co.], N. H., but returned Lebanon, N. II. in 
1816, and tW'O years later removed to Virgil [Cortland Co.], N. Y. He 
died Jan. 9, 1851. They had 10 children. He was of the 5th generation 
from the English immigrant, the line being Nathaniel,'' b. Mansfield, Conn., 
1747; Cornelius^, b. Mansfield, 1714; Capt. Thomas," b. IMansfield, 1686; 
SamueP from Sutton, Nottinghamshire, England ; m. Barnstable, Mass., 
Dec. 6, 1666, Mary Huckins. 

James J"^. son of James and Ruth Kendrick, killed by kick of horse. 
[Stone partly buried.] 

In memory of Mr. Richard Kimball, died Ang. 2, 1810, in the 86'^'* 
year of age 

In memory of Abigail wdfe of Richard Kimball, died Sept. 3, 1820, aged 
93 years 

Abigail Kimball [daughter of Richard and Abigail] died Dec. 20, 1843, 
aged 82 years 

Jesse Kimball [son of Richard and Abigail] died July 8 1830, aged 71. 
years 

Ebenezer Kimball [son of Richard and Abigail] died May — 1854, 
aged 83 years 

Richard Kimball [son of Richard and Abigail] born July 16, 1768, died 
Feb. 12, 1860. 



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Mnry Marsh, wife of Eichard Kimball, born July 10, 1772, (lied Dec. 10, 
18G0. ' 

Eunice liutcliinson, daughter of Richard and Mary Kimball, died July 
3, 1845, aged 48 years 

Mary, daughter of Capt. [Richard] and Mary Kimliall ; died July 3, 
18 IG, aged 17 yrs. 

The genealogy of the Kimball Family (published in 1897) gives the pa- 
ternal ancestry of this group of the name. 

Richard^ Kimball was of the parish of Rattlesden, County of Suifolk, 
England, as is shown by the following entry on the parish register. " Hen- 
ry Keml)all ye sonne of Richard and Vrsula his wife, baptized 1(315, 12. 
August." Ursula was the daughter of Henry Scott of Rattlesden, as ap- 
pears by his bequests to her children. Henry Kimball, by the printed 
record in the genealogy, was the second child of his parents. Richard 
Ejmball was probably born about or earlier than 1590. He embarked at 
Ipswich, Co. vSuffolk, England, with wife Ursula and eight children, in the 
ship Elizabeth, April 10, l()o4; landed at Boston, thence went to Water- 
town [Middlesex Co.], Mass., and settled in that part of the town which 
later became a part of Cambridge. The compiler of the genealogy locates 
his home lot of six acres " near what is now the corner of Huron Avenue 
and Appleton Street." About 1635 he was invited to remove to Ii)swich 
[Essex Co.], Mass., where he spent the remainder of his days. He mar- 
ried 2d, October 23, 16G1, Margaret, widow of Henry Dow of Hampton, 
N. H. He died June 22, 1G75. 11 children, 6 sons; the 3d son, 7th 
child, was 

John'-^ Kimball, (Richard), born Rattlesden, Co. Suffolk, England, , 

1631; died Ipswich [Essex Co.], Mass., May 6, 1698; married, about 
1655, Mary Brewster, born 1633, who, with her parents, came over with 
the Kimball family in the Elizabeth in 1634. 13 children, 7 sons : the 2d 
son, 6th child, was 

Corporal Richard'^ Kimball (John,'-^ RichanF), born Ipswich [Essex Co.], 
Mass., Sej)t. 22, 1665; died Ipswich, May 26, 1715; married, Feb. 13, 
168H, Lydia Wells of Ipswich, the mother of his children; married, 2d, 
Aug. 30, 1705, Sarah White, who died Feb. 22, 1725. 7 children, 3 sons ; 
the eldest son, 2d child, was 

Richard'' Kimball (Richard,Mohn,- Richar(P), born Ipswich [Essex Co.], 

Mass., Aug. 17, 1691, died , 1760; married Feb. II, 1716, Sarah, 

daughter of Andrew and Mary [Conant] Burley, born Oct. 6, 1698. About 
1735 removed to Norwich [New London Co.] and later to Windham 
[Windham Co.], Conn. 11 children, 5 sons ; the eldest son, 4th child, was 

Richard^ Kimball (Richard,"' Richard,^ John,- Richard'), born Norwich 
[New London Co.], Conn., May 8, 1725; died Lebanon, Grafton Co., N. 
H., Aug. 2, 1810, [gravestone] ; married Nov. 7, 1750, Abigail Hunting- 
ton. He resided in Windham [Windham Co.], Conn. The Huntington 
Genealogical Memorial, published in 1863, gives the list of their children 
under the statement " this family were all born in Windham, Scotland So- 
ciety," and of the wife and mother the record reads " Abigail, born June 
27,'l727. She married Nov. 7, 1750, Richard Kimball, Jr7, of Scotland." 

Samuel, the brother of this Abigail, born , 1731, died 1796, " was 

one of Connecticut's most distinguished sons. Sent to the General Assem- 
bly in 1764, to its upper branch in 1773, Judge of Superior Court, 1774, 
delegate to Congress, 1775, signer of the declaration of July 4, 1776, presi- 



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dent of Congress from Sept. 28, 1770, till ill-health compelled his resigna- 
tion July 6, 1781, Chief -Justice of Conn., 1784, Lieut. Gov., 1785, Gov- 
ernor 178(3 till his death." They were son and daugliter of Nathaniel^ 
Huntington, born Norwich, 1(')1)1 ; died Windham, 17(37; son of .Joseph,^ 
born Norwich, KiGl, died Windham, 1747 ; who was son of Deacon Simon^ 
(brother of the William who was'ancestor to the Jeremiah Huntington who 
died Lebanon, N. H., June K, 1794), born England, died Norwich 1706. 
(For the parentage of these brothers see statement following the epitaph 
of Jeremiah of Leljanon, N. H.). Children of Richard and Abigail (Hunt- 
ington) Kimball, born Windluun, Conn. : 

i, Marv,*' b. Nov. 10, 1752 ; m. Aaron Mosher of Rochester. 

ii. Elijah, b. Sept. 19, 1754. 

iii, Eunice, b. Nov. 30, 175(1; m. Henry Hebard. 

iv. Jesse, b. Feb. 5, 1759 ; [d. July 8, 1830, gravestone age 71 years.] 

V. Abigail, b. Sept. 27, 1761 ; [d. Lebanon, N. IL, Dec. 20, 1843, 
gravestone.] 

vi. Lydia, b. Aug. 6, 1763. 

vii. P^noch, b. Dec. 20, 1765. 

viii. Richard, b. July 16, 1768. 

ix. Ebenezer, b. June 24, 1771 ; [d. Lebanon, N. H., May — , 1854, 
aged 83, gravestone.] 

The compiler of the Kimltall genealogy copied this list, adding the in- 
formation that Elijah lived in Windham, Conn. ; that Jesse died Lelianon, 
N. H., 1832 ; that Eunice mari-ied Henry Hubbard, and that Richard went 
to Lebanon, N. H. iSoth Ilcbards and Hubbards are buried in the Old 
Pine Cemetery, but as the Hubbard genealogy has no Henry of record as 
marrying a Eunice Kiml)all, the earlier genealogy doubtless gave the true 
surname. 

Richard^ Kimball (Richard,^ Richard,^ Richard,^ Johu,^ Richard^), born 
Windham [Windham Co.], Conn., July 16, 1768; died Lebanon [Grafton 

Co.], N. H., Feb. 12, 1860; married , 1795, Mary, daughter of 

Joel Marsh. They resided at Windham, and at other places, living for 
many years at West Lebanon, N. H. The Historical Magazine (pul). New 
York)* vol. iv., p. 127, says of him, " Capt. Kimball was distinguished for 
his hospitality and for the interest he took in educational and benevolent 
enterprises. His fondness for home and agricultural pursuits were attested 
by his residence of more than fifty years upon his farm on the Connecticut 
river, which in point of culture and beauty was unsurpassed in that beauti- 
fid valley. * * * He was identified with all the early internal im- 
provements in New England. When De Witt Clinton commenced the 
construction of the Erie and Champlain canals * * * be was referred 
to him as the man who had been practically engaged in constructing the 
Middlesex [from Boston to Lowell], the first canal in this country. * * * 
For many years Gov. Clinton consulted him in all matters of practical dif- 
ficulty in relation to the canals." Children : 

Elijah Huntington,^ b. Sharon [Windsor Co.], Vt., Oct. 19, 1801 ; 
m. Sept. 3, 1827, P:iizabeth C. Hinsdale, b. Jan. 17, 1807, d. 
Sept. 1, 1828; m. 2d, May 10, 1830, Sarah W. Hinsdale, b. 
June 1, 1805. He was at Kimball Union Academy 1815-16, 
Dartmouth College 1817-19 ; graduate Union college 1821 ; a 
lawyer at Waterford [Saratoga Co.], N. Y., and at New York 
City. Children : 



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i. Elizabeth Christopliers,^ b. Nov. 22, 1831 ; m. Dec. 4, 1850, 

Joseph riobsou. 
ii. Mary Marsh, b. Apr. 28, 1834; m. Dec. — , 1854, Hu-am 
Berdan. He was a colonel in the Union army during the 
Civil War; the inventor of the Berdan rifle. Children: 
Sarah, m. a French count ; lives Paris ; has children. 
Howard, d. a young man ; unm. Elizabeth, m. Francis 
Marion Crawford, the author, who d. in Italy 1909. 2 
sons, Harold and Berdan ; 2 dan., Eleanor, the elder, m. 
Pietro Rocca, an officer in the army of Italy, 
iii. Lucy Young, b. July 22, 1836; d. Newport, R. I., July 11, 
1871 ; m. Oct. 15, 1856, Levi P. Morton, minister to 
France, vice-president of the United States, governor State 
of New York, 
iv. Caroline Young, b. June 10, 1838; m. Dec. 18, 1861, Col. 

Richard G. Lay, Buffalo, N. Y. 
V. Sarah Frances, b". July 21, 1841 ; d. Aug. — , 1873. 

Lucy,'' b. Nov. 2, 1805 ; m. Hutchinson. 

Caroline, b. Dec. 18, 1807; d. Mar. 7, 1892; m. Robert 

Young of Pottsville [Schuylkill Co.], Penn. Six years after 
his death she m. Prof. Charles Brackett Haddock, b. Salisljury, 
now Franklin [Merrimack Co.], N. H., 1796, d. West Lebanon 
[Grafton Co.], N. H., aged 64 years. His father, Wm. Had- 
dock, was a native of Mass. ; his mother was Abigail, sister 
of Daniel Webster. He was a graduate of Dartmouth 1816; 
jjrof. at that college 1819-1851. His wife accompanied him 
to Lisbon, while he resided there as charge d'affairs to Portugal 
1851-1855. " On his return he devoted himself to agriculture 
and literature at his charming home on the banks of the Con- 
necticut River" (N. E. H. and G. Register, Vol. 15, p. 184). 
No children. 
Richard Burleigh, b. Plaintield [Sullivan Co.], N. H., Oct. 11, 
1816 ; d. New York, Dec. 28, 1892 ; m. Apr. 17, 1844, Julia C, 
dau. of David T. Tomlinson, who d. July 24, 1879 ; Kimball 
Union Academy 1827 to 1830; graduate Dartmouth College 
1834 ; lawyer and author ; residence after marriage, New York, 
and Lebanon [Grafton Co.], N. H. Children : 

Julia,«d. Sept. 29, 1864; unm. Richard, b. Jan. 11, 1845; 
settled in Texas, and has son Richard,^ graduated at West 
Point about 1906. Cornelia, unm. 1900. Daniel Tom- 
linson, b. Mar. 20, 1852. Eunice Marsh, d. Feb., 1907; 
unm. 

For the compilation of the records of the descendants of Richard and 
Abigail (Huntington) Kimball, who were of the New Hampshire Viranch, 
the compiler has relied mainly on the Kimball Family publication of 1897. 
But from no work that he has consulted, nor from any information obtained 
in the vicinity of the ancient cemetery, did he gain any knowledge of two 
daughters of Richard and Mary (Marsh) Kimball. Until this work shall 
be printed there will probal)ly be no record that Eunice H. and INIary 
Kimball, of the seventh generation, ever lived and died in Lebanon, other 
than the inscriptions on their gravestones. 



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Elisha Lathrop, died July 2, 1787, aged 73 years. 

Haunah his wife, died Jan. 16, 1807, aged 81 years. 

The Lathrop genealogy gives his line to the great-grandfather of the 
Rev. John Lothrop, immigrant to New England. 

John Lowthorp, great-grandfather of the English emigrant from old to 
New England, was living early in the 16th century in Cherry Biirtou, a 
parish about four miles from Lowthorp AVapentake [a division or district] 
of Dickering, East Riding [one of the three * * * jurisdictions * * * 
into which the County of York is divided], of Yorkshire. His name ajipears 
on an assessment roll of 1545. He left a son, Robert, and three daughters. 

Robert, succeeded to the estates of his father in Cherry Burton. He 

married Ellen , who survived him fourteen years and left a will which 

supplies the names of her descendants ; among them her eldest son 

Thomas, born Cherry Burton; maiTied 1st, Elizalieth (widow) Clark, 

who was buried in Etton, July 29, 1574 ; married 2d, Mary , who was 

buried in Etton, Jan. 6, 1588 ; and 3d, Jane , who, after his death, 

became the wife of Coppendale. He removed to Etton, Harthill 

Wapentake, East Riding, Yorkshire, about 1576, and died there in 1606. 
His will, dated Oct. 5, 1606, was probated the following January. He left 
22 children, 11 sons; the 5th son, 12th child, was 

John^ Lothrop, baptized Etton, Yorkshire, England, Dec. 20, 1584; 
graduate Cambridge 1 609 ; curate of the parish church of Egerton, Co. Kent, 
1611-1623 ; a dissenting minister to a small congregation in Loudon, 1624- 
1632 ; arrested, with over forty of his congregation, by order of Church and 
State authorities, Apr. 22, 1632. Some two years later all but Mr. Lathrop 
were released on bail. During his imprisonment his wife was taken sick, 
and "he procured liberty of the bishop to visit her before her death." 
Soon after his return to prison he was released, and ordered to procure bail. 
The court proceedings gave the opportunity of escape. Governor Win- 
throp's Journal, under date of Sept. 18, 1634, records: "The GrifUn and 
another Ship now arriving with about 200 passengers ; Mr. Lothrop and 
Mr. Sims, two godly ministers, coming in the same ship." Some of his 
Loudon congregation came with him or had preceded him, and in the fol- 
lowing January formed a church at Scituate [Plymouth Co.], Mass. In 
1639 he removed to Barnsta1)le [Barnstable Co.], Mass., and founded 
another church. He had married a second wife before June 14, 1635, 
when she joined the church of which he was minister. Probate proceed- 
ings show that she survived him. 12 children are of record, 7 sons ; the 
3d son, 6th child, was 

Samuel'^ Lothrop (John^), born England; came with his father to Scitu- 
ate and Brewster, Mass.; married Brewster, Nov. 28, 1644, J^lizabeth 
Scudder, reported by Savage as a sister of that John Scudder who .was of 
Barnstable in 1640. She died before 1690, as in that year, in Plymouth, 
Mass., he married Abigail, daughter of Deacon John Doane of that town. 
He removed to Norwich [New London Co.], Conn., in 1668, and died 
Feb. 29, 1700. 9 children, 4 sons ; the 3d son, 4th child, was 

IsraeP Lothrop (Samuel,^ John^), l)orn Norwich [New London Co.], 
Conn., Oct. — , 1659 ; died Norwich, Mar. 2, 1733 ; married Apr. 8, 1686, 
Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Bliss of Norwich, son of Thomas Bliss of 
Hartford, Conn. They settled at Norwich. She died Aug. 22, 1737. 
10 children, 7 sons ; the 4tli son, 4th child, was 

SamueP Lothrop (Israel,* Samuel,' John^}, born Norwich, Conn., July 12 



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1602; married June 26, 1712, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Thomas^ and 
Elizabeth (Allen) Waterman (Thomas,'-^ Robert^) [see Watei-man]. He 
lived in that part of Norwich which, during his lifetime, was set off as the 
town of Bozrah. Only 2 children of record. 

Elisha,^ b. July 13, 1713 ; m. 1732, Margaret Sluman. 
Samuel, b. Jan. 12, 1715; m. 1735, Charity Sluman. 

Elisha^ Lothrop, born July 13, 1713; died (killed by the falling of a 
tree) Lebanon [GJrafton Co.]", N. H., July 2, 1787 ; married Jan. 31,"l732, 
Margaret Sluman, who died Oct. 10, 1742; married 2d, Jan. 23, 1743, 
Hannah, daughter of Capt. John and Hannah (Denisou) Hough, who was 
born in New London, Conn. They settled in Bozrah, but removed to 
Lebanon, N. II. His widow died Hanover, N. H., Jan. 16, 1807; buried 
Lebanon. 19 children (14 sons). The record of those that settled in 
N. H. follows : 

Thaddeus,^ 4th son, born Norwich [New London Co.], Conn., Feb. 8> 
1742; died Chelsea (Orange Co.), Vt. ; married Anna Gurdon. They 
settled Canaan [Grafton Co.], N. H., where she died , 1781. 7 chil- 
dren, 4 sons. 

Elizabeth,® eldest daughter, born Norwich, Conn., Nov. 20, 1744; mar- 
ried John Hamilton, who was born and lived in that town. After her death 
he removed to Lebanon, N. II. They had two children, John and Jona- 
than [see e])itapli of her grandson, Pavne Hamilton]. 

Elijah," 5th son, born Norwich, Conn., Oct. 20, 1743; died Dec. 2, 1822; 

married , 1763, Elizabeth Elderkin ; settled in Lebanon, N. II., where 

she died Feb. 17, 1812; married 2d, Mar. 4, 1813, Rhoda Gill. 11 chil- 
di'en, 7 sons. 

Hannah,® 2d daughter, born Norwich, Conn., Mar. 2, 1747 ; married 
Lemuel Hough of Norwich. They settled in Lebanon, N. H., and had 9 
children. 

Sluman,® 6th son, born Norwich, Conn., Sept. 25, 1 750 ; died Lebanon, 
N. H., Dec. 4, 1834; married Katherine Avery of Lisbon. They lived in 
Lebanon; she died Mar. 17, 1846, 84 years of age. 4 children, 2 sons. 

Samuel,® 11th son, born Norwich, Conn., Nov. 22, 1756; died Lebanon, 
N. H., Jan. 12, 1821 ; married May 15, 1786, Lois Huntington, who died 
Apr. 4, 1840. She was daughter of Theophilus^ and Lois (Gilford) Hunt- 
ington, son of Christopher"* ^ -, Simon, ^ who as a child, 4 years old, came to 
Boston, Mass., w'itli his mother, widow Margaret (Baret) Huntington, in 
1633. I'hey lived in Lebanon. The genealogy states that he " was in the 
Bunker Hill engagement, and was among the wounded on that memorable 
17th June," and that he afterward purchased a tract of land in Lebanon, 
N. H. 4 children, 1 son ; one of the daughters, Alameda,'' born Lebanon, 
, 1787, died Lebanon, June 6, 1824, unmarried. 

Sarah,® 4th daughter, born Norwich, Conn., Apr. 27, 1765; married 
Oliver Ames, a physician of Plainfield, N. H. ; 2d, David Morse of Sharon 
[Windsor Co.], Vt. They lived, first, in Plattsburg [Clinton Co.], and 
afterwards in Johnstown [Fulton Co.], N. Y., where they died. 

In memory of Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Joseph Marston, who died INIar. 19, 
1867, aged 65 years. Near this grave was a broken stone on which could 
only be read : 

Mr. Joshua . And another broken off and in three pieces showing 

part of the original inscription. 



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In memory of Abbe son of Nathaniel and Elfreda (?) who died 

Oct age 7 years. 

Harvey, son of C^apt. Jonatlian and Mrs. Anuer Miller, who died Sept. 
23, 18U5," in the 9th year of his age. 

In memory of Lemuel Southworth and William Moors, who were 
drowned in Connecticut river, Sept. 15, 1809, aged 29 and 15 years. 

Mrs. Berthia Perkins, this insei'iption was on a footstone, the headstone 
was illegil)le. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Porter, relict of Lieut. Nathaniel Porter, she died July 
19, 180(S, aged 99 years 11 months ; next the grave of this almost cente- 
narian tliere still stands a headstone the inscription wholly illegible. It 
doul)tless marks the grave of her husl)and, Nathaniel Porter, son of Ex- 
perience" and Abigail (Williams) Porter (Samuel,^ John^), l)orn Au<''. 16, 
17U9. 

Deacon Nathaniel Porter, died April 3, 1831, aged 82 years. 
Mrs. Olive, relict of Deacon Nathaniel Porter, died Feb. 23, 1833, a"ed 
79 years. 

Rev. Experience Porter, died Aug. 2G, 1828, aged 46 years. 
vSamuel S., son of Deacon Nathaniel and Olive Porter, died Feb 13, 1817, 
aged 33 years. 

Abigail, daughter of Deacon Nathaniel and Oliver Porter, died Feb. 22, 
1814, aged 22 years. 

This stone tells the weeping friend and the watcliful angel, 
where sleeps the dust of Deacon Nathaniel Porter who 
died Jan. 26, 1835, yEt. 41. 
The Porter and Storrs genealogies give tlie pedigree of all l»orn to those 
names whose epitai)lis were found. 

John^ Porter came to New Eugland in 1630 and settled at Dorchester 
[since 1870 a part of the city of Boston], Mass. In 1635 removed with 
others from that neighborhooil to Connecticut and settling u]ion the banks 
of the river of that name founded the town of Windsor [Hartford Co.], 
where his wife Rose died July — , 1647. He died there Apr. 22, 1648. 
12 children, 6 sons ; the 2d sou, 4th chiM, was 

Samuel-^ Porter (Johu^), b. England , 1626 ; died Windsor, Conn., 

Sept. 6, 1639, married 1659, Hannah, daughter of Tliomas Stanley, born 
England, died Hadk'y [Hampshire Co.], Mass., Dec. 18, 1702. 10 child- 
ren, 8 sons ; the 5th son, 7th child, was 

Dea, Exj)erience^ Porter (Samuel,^ John^), born Aug. 5, 1676; died 
Manshehl [Tolland Co.], Conn., Aug. 28, 1750; married May 26, 1698, 
Abigail, daugliter of Samuel and Tlieoda (Parke) Williams, born July 13, 
1674 ; she was of a Roxbury, INIass., family. Her sister Deborah® mar- 
ried Joseph Warren, and was an ancestress of Gen. Joseph W^arren, killed 
at Bunker Hill; 10 chibh'en, 3 sous; among the daughters were 
Martha,'' b. Mansfield, .Ian. 11, 1711 ; m. Corni'lius Storrs. 
Eunice, b. " Dec. 13, 1713 ; m. Huckins Storrs. -^ 
The 3d son, the 6th of the group of 10 children, \ras 
Lieut. Nathaniel^ Porter (Experience,^ Samuel,'^ John^), born Mansfield, 
Conn., Aug. 16, 1709; died Lebanon [Grafton Co.], N. H., ; mar- 
ried, Sept. 30, 1730, Elizabeth Storrs, daugliter of Samuel," Samuel,^ emi- 
grant from England; born Mansfield, Aug. 1, 1708; died Lebanon, July 
19,1808. Children: 

i. Sami;el,^ b. June 16, 1731. 



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ii. Enuice, b. Juue 23, 1733. 
iii. Hannah, b. Apr. 20, 1735. 

iv. Nathaniel, b. " 18, 1737 ; d. , 1747. 

V. Theoda, b. Sept. 16, 1739; m. Joseph Estabrook. 
vi. Martha, b. Nov. 9, 1741 ; m. Jedediah Hubbard, 
vii. Mehitable, b. Dec. 22, 1743. 
viii. Elizabeth, b. July 2, 1746 ; m. John Griswold. 
ix. Nathaniel b. Nov. 24, 1748 ; m. Olive Hall. 
Deacon NathanieP Porter (Nathaniel,* Experience,^ Samuel," John^), 
born Nov. 24, 1748 ; died Lebanon, Grafton Co., N. H., Apr. 3, 1831, 
[gravestone] ; married Olive, daughter of Nathaniel* and Martha ( Storrs) 
Hall (Theophilas,^ William,^ John^), born June 25, 1753 ; died Lebanon, 
Feb. 23, 1833, [gravestone]. The only record of their children that has 
been found by the compiler is that on the gravestones in the Lebanon, N. H., 
cemetery. 

Rev. Experience,^ b. about 1782 ; d. Lebanon, N. H., Aug. 25, 1828. 
Samuels., b. " 1784 ; d. " " Feb. 13, 1817. 

Abigail, b. " 1792; d. " " " 22,1814. 

Nathaniel, b. " 1794; d. " " Jan. 26, 1835. 

Here lies the remains of Joanna, wife of Mr. Andrew Post, who died 
Dec. 18, 1813, in the 41st year of her age. 

Pauline D., daughter of Elias and Annis Sanborn ; died , 1825 

[stone partially l)uried]. 

In memory of Rebecca, wife of Jonathan Scott, who died Oct. 4, 1812, 
aged 34 years. 

Mrs. Filindia Snell, died Jan. 24, 1808, in her 29th year. 
Lemuel Southworth, drowned with William Moors (see Moors). 
In memory of Mrs. Martha Storrs, relict of Mr. Cornelius Storrs of 
Mansfield, Connecticut; she died Dec. 23, 1776, in the 64th year of her 
age. 

Although but one epitaph with the surname Storrs was copied in the 
Old Pine Cemetery, the compilation that follows will show that a goodly 
number were born to the name in Lebanon, some evidently married there 
and some doubtless died in the town. The Storrs Genealogy published in 
1886 is mainly relied on for authority. The family is traced back to 
Sutton-Cum-Lound, Nottinghamshii'e, England. William Storrs, great, 
great grandfather of the emigrant to New England, dated his will in the 
last year of the reign of Queen Mary, 1557. His son Robert's will was 
probated 1588; his son Cordall dated his will Feb. — , 1615, and his son 

Thomas Storrs, baptized Apr. 25, 1 605, married Mary . The record 

of the baptism of their children w^as copied from the parish register of 
Sutton : 

i. Thomas, bapt. Jan. 27, 1632. v. Joseph, bapt. Aug. 20, 1643. 



n. 



Cordail, " Sept. 21, 1635. vi. Elizabeth," Feb. 8, 1648. 

iii. George, " Apr. 29, 1638. vii. Mary, " Nov. 2, 1650. 

iv. Samuel, " Dec. 7, 1640. 

SamueP Storrs, b. liapt. Sutton, Co. Nottingham, England, Dec. 7, 1640 ; 
died Mansfield [Tolland Co.], Conn., Apr. 30, 1719 ; married, Dec. 6, 
1666, Mary, daughter of Thomas Huckins of Barnstable [Barnstable Co.], 
Mass. ; b. bapt. Mar. 29, 1646 ; died Barnstable Sept. 24, 1683 ; married 
2d Dec. 14, 1685, widow Esther or Hester Egard or Agard, who died 
April 13, 1730, in the 89th year of her age. He was of Barnstable as 



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early as 1663. About 1G98 he removed to Mansfield. 9 children, 3 sons ; 
the 2d son, 7th child, was 

Thomas'- Storrs (SamueP), l)orn Barnstable, Mass., Oct. 27, 1686, died 
Mansfield, Conn., A])r. 4, 1755 ; married Mehitable , who died Mans- 
field, March 10, 1776, in ye 89th year of her age. He was for many years 
clerk for the proprietors and town clerk of Mansfield. 1 1 children, 7 sons ; 
the eldest child was 

Cornelius* Storrs (Thomas,'^ SamueP), born Mansfield, Conn., Dec. 30, 
1714; died Mansfield, May 19, 1760; married Sept. 4, 1738, Martha, 
daughter of Deacon Experience Potter of JMansfield, who died Lebanon, 
Grafton Co., N. H., Dec. 23, 1776 [gravestone]. Children: 

i. Cornelius,* b. Mansfield, Sept. 5, 1739; m. Mary Slapp. 

ii. Martha, b. " Oct. 13, 1741. 

iii. Constant, b. " Mar. 20, 1744; d. July 18, 1745. 

iv. Mebitable, b. " June 12, 1745; m. Nathaniel Hall. 

V. Nathaniel, b. " " 21, 1747 ; m. Ruth Hall. 

vi. Elijah, b. " Mar. 25, 1750; lived and died Bridge 

water, Mass. 
vii. Constant, b. " Feb. 11, 1752; m. Lucinda Howe, 

viii. Hannah, b. " Apr. 7, 1754. 

Capt Cornelius* Storrs, born Mansfield [Tolland Co.], Conn., Sept. 5, 
1739 ; died Mar. — , 1792 ; married Jan. 23, 1772, Mary, daughter of Major 
John Slapp of IMansfield. She died Nov. 18, 1791. Cornelius Storrs 
served in the war of the Revolution. Children : 

i. John,^ b. July 14, 1774; settled near Burlington, Vt. 
ii. Ex]ierience, b. Sept. 15 1776, ") the three younger children went 
iii. Roderick, b. Sept. 30, 1778, >- to live with their Uncle Nathan- 
iv. Bela, b. Oct. 17, 1780, ) iel Storrs, Lebanon, N II., who 

was aduiiuistrator or their father's estate, and probably their 
guardian. 
Nathaniel* Storrs, born JMansfield, Conn., June 21, 1747; died Lebanon 
[Grafton Co.], N. H., Aug. 25, 1813; married Mar. 28, 1771, Ruth, 
daughter of Nathaniel* and Martha (Storrs) Hall (Theophilus,'' William,'^ 
John^), born Mar. 27, 1752; died Lebanon, Apr. 3, 1832. He was 
deacon of the Congregational Charch for many years ; he bought land in 
Lebanon in 1769, and resided there in 1771 and until his death. Children, 
born Lebanon : 

i. Constant,* b. Apr. 1, 1772; m. Elvira Neff of Randolph, Vt. 
ii. Nathaniel, b. Mar. 14, 1774; d. Boston, Mass., June 16, 1851, 

unmarried ; grad. Dartmouth, 
iii. Jesse, b. IMar. 10, 1776; m. Hannah Hyde of Lebanon, N. H. 
iv. Ruth, b. Aug. 11, 1778; m. Caleb Freeman '' " 

V. Martha, b. , 17 — ; m. Dr. John Lyman of Vt. ; rem. to 

Farmingtou, Fulton Co., 111. ; 4 children, 2 sons. 
vi. Salley, b. May 13, 1782 ; m. Luther Waters of Lebanon, N. H. 
vii. Fidelia, b. Nov. — , 1784; m. Elislia Smalley. 
viii. Ziba, b. Apr. 14, 1789 ; m. Mabel Tickuor. ' 
I. Constant^ Storrs, born Lebanon, N. H., Ajir. 1, 1772; died Lebanon, 
Mar. 30, 1853 ; married Feb. 21, 1799, Elvira Neff of Randolph [Orange 
Co.], Vt., born Windham [Windham Co.], Conn., Oct. 10, 1772 ; died 
Mar. 18, 1848. He was a farmer, living on the old homestead. Children, 
born Lebanon : 



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Pamelia« b. Dec. 15, 1802; d. Mar. 27, 1803. 

Abel, b. May 15, 1807 ; m. Sarah A. Storrs. 

Elvira, b. July 5, 1815 ; m. Horace Chandler of Piermout, N. H. 
Abel^ Storrs, born Lebanon, N. H., May 15. 1807 ; married Sejit. 0, 
1839, his cousin Sarah Almira, daughter of Constant^ Storrs of Argyle 
[Washington Co.], N. Y., who died dune 2, 1840; married 2d, Hartfand 
[Windsor Co.], Vt., May 18, 1851, Eliza Charlotte Hoyt, born Craftsbury 
[Orleans Co.], Vt. A farmer, and in 1886 lived on his father's place in 
Lebanon, N. H. Children, born in Lebanon, N. H. : Nellie" Elvira, Alice 
Catherine, Jennie Laura. 

III. Jesse^ Storrs, born Lebanon, N. H., Mar. 10, 1776; died Virgil, 
Cortland Co., N. Y., 1851 ; married Feb. 18, 1800, Hannah, daughter of 
Levi and Jemima (Martin) Hyde, born Lebanon, Nov. 19, 1776. "She 
spent the last years of her life with her daughter in La Motte [Jackson Co.], 
Iowa, and died there in her 91st year." " A farmer, a deacon for many 
years." Children : 

Jesse,^ b. (3xford [Grafton Co.], N. H. ; m. Harriet Gates. 
Almira, b. " " " " m. Alexander McDole. 

Prescott C, b. m. Lucy Richardson. 

Andrew, b. Lebanon " " " m. Elizal)eth E. Gambarton. 

Sylvester D., b. Virgil [Cortland Co.], N. Y. ; m. Fanny J. Terry. 

IV. Ruth" Storrs, born Lebanon, N. H., Aug. 11, 1778; died Oxford, 
Apr. 9, 1830 ; married Nov. 17, 1796, Caleb Freeman of Lebanon. They 
lived in St. rJohnsbury, Vermont, and later in " Oxford in that state," as 
the genealogy of the name states, but the compiler can locate no town of 
that name in Vermont. 10 children, 4 sons. 

V. Martha^ Storrs, born Lebanon, N. H., about 1780 ; married Dr. John 
Lyman of Vermont, but removed from that state to Farmington [Fulton 
Co.]. 111. 4 children, 2 sons. 

VI. Sally^ Storrs, l)orn Lebanon, N. H., May 13, 1782 ; married May 
28, 1801, Luther Waters of Lebanon. They lived for several years in 
Lel)anon, then in Rochester [Windsor Co.], Vt., and about 1830 went 
with the Lyman family to Farmington, Illinois. The visible portion of 
the inscrijjtion of a j)artially buried ^gravestone reads, " Infant daughter 
and son of Mr. Luther and Sally Waters, the daughter died Aug. 23, 
1809 " Children: 

Sarah,« b. Jan. 14, 1803; d. Aug. 16, 1820. 

Harry, b. May 22, 1805. Ann, b. Apr. 15, 1817. 

Maryette, b. May 10, 1807. Luther, b. Feb. 18, 1822. 

Charles, b. July 5, 1813. Sarah, b. Feb. 29, 1824. 

Harriet, b. Oct. 3, 1815. George, b. Oct. 29, 1826. 

VII. Fidelia^ Storrs, born Lebanon [Grafton Co.], N. H., Nov. — , 1784 ; 
died Hanover [Grafton Co.], Nov. 30, 1823; married Nov. — , 1807, 
Elisha, son of Joseph Smalley, born Norwich [Windsor Co.], Vt., May 
20, 1781 ; died Hanover, N. H., Nov. 21, 1857. He married 2d, Hannah 
Springer. Of that marriage six children were born, the eldest in 1827 ; 
the youngest, Joseph Henry, was born Lebanon [Grafton Co.], N. H., in 
1839. From his son, Harrison S. Smalley, assistant professor of politi- 
cal economy in the University of Michigan, the cominler has received 
valuable information, the most important being the correction of the 
death date of Fidelia (Storrs) Smalley, erroneously given in the gene- 
alogy of the name, as Nov. 21, 1837 : Joseph, the father of Elisha Smalley, 



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was born in Conn, in 1744, removed from Norwich, Vt., to Brookfield 
[Orange Co.], Vt., in 1792, and died there Oct. 22, 1804. Children of 
Elisha and Fidelia (Storrs) Smalley : 

i. Storrs^ b. Aug. 31, 1809'; d. Oct. 24, 1809. 

ii. Dan Storrs, h. Brooklield, Vt., Oct. — ,1811 ; d. Boston, Mass., 
Apr. 8, 1880 ; married June 1, 1842, Lucy Pierce, b. Brigh- 
ton [annexed to Boston 1874]. Children: 

Dan, b. Boston, , d. in infancy. 

Emma, b. Boston, Dec. 21, 1847 ; m. Fayette S. Giles. 
Edward T., b. Boston, Jan. 22, 1853; d. Apr. 25, 18.53. 
Laurie A., b. Boston, Sept. 1, 1857 ; d. Mar. 8, 1893 ; m. 

Arthur Flint. 
Franklin E., b. Boston, Jan. IG, 1861 ; d. Oct. 5, 1864. 

iii. Elijali, b. Brookfield, Vt., ; d. May 23, 1887 ; married Lucy 

Green. Children : 

Maria Adelaide, b. June 29, 1848 ; d. . 

Saruh Ellen, b. ; d. . 

iv. Leonard W., b. Brookfield, Vt., Apr. — , 1814; d. Boston, Mass., 
Dec. 2, 1901 ; married Boston, Sept. 25, 1838, Sarah, daugh- 
ter of James Knott of Boston. No children. 
V. Laura A., b. Brookfield probably, Nov. 29, 1819 ; d. Aug. 19, 
1859 ; married William Goodrich. One child : William. 
VITL Ziba^ Storrs, b. Lebanon, N. H., Apr. 14, 1789; married Mabel 
Ticknor, and had 

Edwin* Porter, b. Dec. 29, 1824 ; living in Boston, Mass., 188G. 
John Ticknor, b. Dec. 13, 1825 ; living in Oregon, 1886, a farmer. 
Horace Lyman, b. Feb. G, 1828 ; living in Lebanon, N. H., 188G, a 
farmer. 

George , b. . 

Constanf* Storrs, born Mansfield, [Tolland Co.], Conn., Feb. 11, 1752; 
died Lebanon [Grafton Co.], N. Ii., Nov. 13, 1828 ; married Oct. 2, 1780, 
Lucinda (Conant) Howe, widow of Dr. Samuel Howe "a surgeon in the 
army that marched against Canada in 1759," daughter of Hon. Sliubael 
Conant, born 1758 ; died Aug. 20, 1839. He went from Mansfield to 
Lebanon a few years after his brother Nathaniel, but probably before 1780. 
Children, born in Leliauon : 

i. William,'' b. Sept. 7, 1781 ; m. Margaret(a) Hough of Leljanon, 

N. H. 
ii. Luther, b. Jan. 18, 1784 ; d. East Hampton, Long Lsland, N. Y., 

July 19, 1804. 
iii. Constant, b. Jan. 25, 1786 ; m. Nancy P. Ransom, of Sandy Hill, 

N. Y. 
iv. Dan, b. Nov. 6, 1788 ; m. Mary Lyman of Brookfield, Vt. 
V. Seth, b. Mar. 4, 1790 ; d. Aug." 21, 1812. 
vi. Lucinda, b. Nov. 6, 1792 ; d. Nov. 18, 1814, unmarried, 
vii. Experience Porter, b. Aug. 21, 1795; d. JE. 34; graduate of 

Dartmouth, a lawyer, 
viii. George, b. Dec. 13, 1796; m. Harriet Waterman. 
I. William'^ Storrs, born Lebanon, N. H., Sept. 7, 1781 ; died Leba- 
non ; married, Jan. 17, 1802, Margaret or Abigail, daughter of David 
Hough of Lebanon. He was a farmer of Lebanon. Children, born Leb- 
anon : 



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i. Luther,« b. Nov. 26, 1802 ; d. New York City, Aug. 31, 1834 ; 
m. Susanna Maudeville. 

ii. Mariah, b, Apr. 1, 1804; m. Joyce. 

iii. William H., b. Apr. 21, 1806. 

iv. Charlotte, b. July 15, 1808 ; m. Benjamin Dow of Dorchester 
[Grafton Co., N. H.] 

V. Eliza, b. Jan. 25, 1810. 

vi. Emma, b. Apr. 6, 1812; m. John Flint of Canaan, N. H. ; 2d, 
Hood and remd. to the West. 

vii. Experience P., b. May 24, 1816 ; m. Dow of Dorches- 
ter, N. H., living there in 1886. 

viii. Edwin, b, Sept. 3, 1818. 

III. Constant^ Storrs, born Lebanon, N. H., Jan. 25, 1786 ; died Leb- 
anon ; married Aug. 21, 1818, Nancy Parker Ransom of Sandy Hill 
[Washington Co.], N. Y. He was a graduate of Dartmouth College, stud- 
ied law, settled Argyle, N. Y., but in middle life his health failing he re- 
turned to his father's house and died there. He had daughter Sarah Al- 
mira,° who married her second cousin Abel,® grandson of Nathaniel* and 
Ruth (Hall)- Storrs. 

IV. Dan^ Storrs, born Lebanon, N. H., Nov. 6, 1788 ; married Nov. 
— , 1813, Mary Lyman of Brookiield, Orange Co.; Vt. A farmer, living 
for part of his married life in Lebanon. 6 children, 5 sons : 

Lucinda H., b. Lebanon, N. H., Sept. 15, 1814. 

Dan, b. " " Mar. 5, 1816. 

Mary Ann, b. " " Feb. 28, 1818. 

VIII. George^ Storrs, born Lebanon, N. H., Dec. 13, 1796; died 
Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 29, 1879, married .Jan. 5, 1818, Harriet, daughter 
of Col. Thomas Waterman, " the first male child born in the town of Leb- 
anon." He was of the 6th generation from the English emigrant [see 
Robert Waterman], born Lebanon, May 20, 1796 ; died June 15, 1824 ; 
married 2d, Mar. 8, 1825, her sister Martha, boi-n Lebanon, Apr. 3, 1800 ; 
died Mar. 15, 1882. He was a clergyman and held the degree of D.D. In 
1841 he was settled in Albany, N. Y., in 1852 in Brooklyn till his death. 
Two childi'en : 

George F., born Feb. 7, 1826. Harriet W., born Nov. 24, 1829. 

In memory of Carl Charles Tilden who died Sept. 20, 1800, aged 50. 

Hannah, daughter of (illegible) and Sarah G. Uet, died Feb. 27, 1832, 
aged 2 years and (stone broken). 

In memory of Mr. Hezekiah Waters who departed this life May 22, 
1813, in the 73d year of his age. 

Mary Waters died Sept. 2, 1816, in the 76th year of her age. 

Elizabeth Waters died May 26, 1780, aged 3 months and 6 days. 

Infant daughter and son of Mr. Luther and Sally Waters ; the daughter 
died Aug. 23, 1809, (stone partially buried). 

Silas Waterman died May 2, 1814, aged 82. 

Mrs. Silence, wife of Mr. Silas Watterman, died June 13, 1817, aged 
83 years. 

Some of the descendants of the immigrant Robert Waterman are chron- 
icled in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 23, 
pages 204-5, and that publication is authority for what follows in relation 
to that surname. 



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Thomas and Robert "Waterman, brothers, came to New England in 1636. 
Thomas settled in Roxbury (since 1868 a part of Boston), Mass., and died 
there in 1676. 

Robert^ Waterman settled in Marshfield [Plymonth Co.], Mass., and died 
Dec. 10, 1652; married Dec. 11, 1638, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas 
Bourne; she died in 1663. Four sous are of record ; the third sou was 

Thomas'^ Waterman (Robert^), born , 1644; married , 

1668, Mu'iam Tracy and emigrated to Saybrook [Middlesex Co.], Conn., 
where he remained a few years, thence to Norwich [New Loudon Co.], in 
that province, and was one of its first settlers. 7 children, 3 sons ; the 
eldest child was 

Thomas^ Waterman (Thomas,^ Robert*), born Sept. — , 1670 ; married 
Elizabeth Allen of Groton [New London Co.], Conn. 9 children, 7 sons ; 
one of the daughters was 

Elizabeth, who in the order of names of this group of children may be 
assumed to be the thu'd child, eldest daughter; she married, June 26, 1712, 
Samuel Lathrop, son of IsraeP (Samuel, '■^ John^), and was the mother of 
the Elisha Lathrop who was killed by the falling of a tree in Lebanon, 
N. li., July 2, 1787. [Grave stone.] 

Thomas'* Waterman, son of Thomas^ and Elizabeth (Allen) Waterman 
(Thomas,^ Robert*) married Sarah Haskins and had 4 daughters and one son. 

Silas^ Waterman (Thomas,'' Thomas,^ Thomas,^ Rol)ert*), born Norwich, 
Conn, [about 1732], died Lebanon [Grafton Co.], N. H., May 2, 1814; 
married Silence Peck [born about 1734], tiled Lebanon, June 13, 1817. 
" He built and occupied the first two-story house in the town, still standing 
in Lebanon in 1869." 3 children of record, the eldest 

Col. Thomas*' Waterman (Silas,^ Thomas,^ Thomas,^ Thomas,^ Robert*) , 
born Lebanon, N. H., July 11, 1766; died Lebanon, Feb. 19, 1838; mar- 
ried Sept. 23, 1790, Susanna, daughter of Paine Cleveland of Canterbury 
[Windham Co.], Conn., born Canterbury, |Jan. 26, 1766 ; died Montr 
pelier, Vt., Aug. 28, 1846. She was of the 5th generation from the Eng- 
lish emigrant, the line being Paine,* Edward,^ Edward,^ Moses,* who came 
from Ipswich, Suffolk Co., England, about 1624, married Woburu [Mid- 
dlesex Co.], Mass., Sept. 26, 1648, Ann Winn, and died there Jan. 9, 1702.] 
Col. Thomas'' Waterman " was the first male child born in the town, a mag- 
istrate and a representative in the legislature for several years, of the select- 
men for about 30 years, passed through all grades of the militia fi'om corporal 
to colonel." [Cleveland Genealogy.] Children, born in Lebanon : 

i. Thomas,^ b. Sept. 14, 1791. 

ii. Mary, b. Dec. 3, 1792 ; m. John Wood. 

iii. Susan, b. June 17, 1794 ; d. Oct. 17, 1839, unmarried. 

iv. Harriet, b. May 20, 1796 ; d. June 15, 1824 ; m. Rev. George Storrs. 

V. Silas, b. Apr. 9, 1798 ; m. Sally Wood. 

vi. Martha, b. Apr. 3, 1800 ; m. Mar. 8, 1825, Rev. George Storrs. 

vii. Harry, b. Dec. 15, 1802 ; d. Elinois, Jan. — , 1857 ; m. Phebe Wil- 
liams. 

\'iii. Emily, b. July 15, 1805 ; m. Joel Dimick. 

ix. Louisa, b. Feb. 3, 1808 ; m. Oscar F. Fowler. 

In memory of John Wlieatley Esq., who in hope of a happy immortal- 
ity departed this life July 30, 1786, in ye 67 yr of his age. 



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IMi-s. Submit, wiilow of John Wheatley Esq. died Mar. 5, 1806 in her 
84 year 

I'he Ohl Pine which gives name to the ce metery is rooted in the Whea<> 
ley lot. 

Tlie Wlieatley Genealogy, published in 11)02, is the authority for the 
statements which follow : 

Capt. John was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1718 : died in Lebanon 
[Grafton Co.], N. H., July 30, 1786. His father, who died in 1731, was a 
surgeon in the British navy. Intended by his mother for the navy, he was 
indentured to the commander of a vessel for a term of seven years to fit 
him as a mariner. The ship sailed for America, bound for New London 
or Norwich, Conn. The captain sold his indentures to a farmer in that 
vicinity, Avith whom it is believed he remained until he was 21 years old. 
He soon began teaching school, following the sea between terms. He com- 
manded a company in the French war in 1759 ; with his company from 
Connecticut he was in the expedition of 1761 against Havana, which re- 
sulted in its capture Aug. 14, 1762. Before the return of the expedition, 
his family lived in Boston, Mass., and Norwich, Conn., until after the close 
of the French war in 1763, when, with the exception of the two elder 
children, they accompanied him to Lebanon, N. H. He was moderator of 
its first town meeting, Sei)t. J 2, 1765, the town clerk for nearly 20 years, 
the first civil magistrate, the first schoolmaster and the first representative 
in the New Hampshire legislature, and the first and only representative of 
the town in the Vermont legislature, at the time when the 1 6 border towns 
gave allegiance to that state ; and held other positions of ])ublic trust. He 
did not serve In the Revolutionary army, but sent his four sons, two of 
whom died in the service. He married in 1742, Submit Peck, widow of 
Aaron Cook, daughter of Benjamin^ Peck of Franklin, a town originally a 
part of Norwich, Conn. ; he was a son of Benjamin,^ grandson of Henry^ 
Peck, who was of New Haven, Conn., in 1638. She was born Franklin, 
Aug. 1, 1722 : died Lebanon, N. H., March 5, 1806. Children : 

i. Mary,- b. , 1743 ; d. Norwich, Conn., 1778. 

ii. John, b. , 1748 ; killed in battle, Long Island, N. Y., Sept. 

16, 1776. 

iii. Andrew, b. Aug. 10, 1750; d. Hardwick [Caledonia Co.], Vt., 
Jidy 7, 1834. 

iv. Nathaniel, b. May 22, 1752, d. Brookfield [Orange Co.], Vt., July 
26, 1824. 

V. Lucinda, b. Dec. — , 1755 ; d. Lebanon, N. H., May 9, 1839. 

vi. Lydia, b. Jan. 1758 ; d. Lebanon. N. H., . 

vii. Luther, b. Boston, Mass., 1760 ; d. Stillwater [Saratoga Co.], N. Y., 
Sept. 30, 1777. 

Ebenezer Whitemore, died Oct. 30, 1870 JE. 93 years. 

In memory of Mrs. Clorinda Whitmore, wife of Mr. Ebe'" Whitemore, 
deceased Dec. 1, 1805, in the 22^' y"" of her age. 

Mary Elizabeth Wickes, wife of Benjamm F. Greene [see Greene]. 

Clarissa Wood, wnfe of Heniy H. Greene [ " '" ]. 

Capt. Joseph Wood, died Nov. 2, 1798, aged 73 years. 

Mrs. Anna, wife of Mr. Joseph Wood, died Mar. 11, 1813, in her 85th 
year. 



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In memory of Aclisah, wife of Capt. Roger "Wood, died Jiiue 7, 1833, 
aged 56 yrs. 

Hannah, youngest daughter of Capt. Roger and Achsah Wood, died 
Nov. 28, 1837, aged 20 years. 

Anna, daughter of John and Persis Wood, died May 31, 1817, aged 4 
years and G [illegil)h']. 

The families of Wood, Gould and Greene, connected by marriage, have 
a lot in joint occupancy ; its monument is described in coimectiou with its 
inscriptions for the last named family. Those of the first named follow. 

Benjamin, sou of John and Mary Parker AV'ood of Bradford, Slass. 
1755-1830. 

Ruth his wife, daughter of Richard and Rachel Page Bailey of Bi-ad- 
ford, Mass. 17 60-183 G. Their chihlren : 

Ruth, Abigail, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Asa, Sarah, .Tesse, Clarissa. 
Bradford [Essex Co.], Mass., Vital Records has among the births, 
*' Benj. son John and Mary Wood, Dec. — , 1755." 

Mrs. Elizabeth wife of Mr. Abel Wright, formerlv the wife of IMr. John 
Hide, died May 14, 1808— G 6 years. [See John Hyde.] 

In memory of Abel Wright, sou to Mr. Abel and Mrs. MaiT Wright, 
died Aug. 5, 1776 [stone jiartially buried]. 

In memory of Irene Wriglit y® daughter to Mr. Aliel and Mrs. Mary 
Wright, died Aug. 7, 1776, in Iier 4th year. 

In memory of Mrs. Mary, wife to Mr. Abel Wright, who in y^ lively 
hope of a blessed immortality, departed this life Sept. 15, 1731, in her 
35tli year. 

Here Innocence and Virtue lie, 
y^ husband mourne y*^ children cry, 
Return y*^ mourning friends return, 
Weej) not for me, dry up your tears. 
In this sweet bed y*' sweeter Saviour lay 
And so must I until he appears. 
Mrs. Alice Wright died April 6, 1809, in her 34th year, wife to Mr. 
Abel Wright, Jun'". 

The compiler has been unable to determine the pai'entage of the John 
Wood who was the father of the little Anna who died in 1817. Her mother 
was the daughter of Levi and Jemima (Martin) Hyde, and the genealogy 
of that name states that he was born July 30tli, 1768, and that at the date 
of his marriage, Apr. 28, 1796, he was of Lebanon, N. H., where he re- 
mained as a farmer till his death, March 26, 1838. His widow, born Leb- 
anon, Apr. 26, 1779, was still living in the town of her birth in 1857. 
Their children as given by the Hyde Genealogy were all born in Lebanon : 
i. Persis, b. May 28*, 1797 ;\l. Sept. 15," 1844; unmarried, 
ii. John, b. Jan. '26, 1799; m. Mar. 3, 1831, Sylvia R. Whitaker of 

Plainfield, N. H. 
iii. Lucinda, b. May 11, 1801 ; m. May 5, 1831, Samuel Wood of Leb- 
anon, N. H. 
iv. Jemima, b. Mar. 1, 1803 ; m. May 22, 1831, Isaac Y. Leighton of 

Grafton, N. H. 
V. Sarah, b. Apr. 29, 1805 ; m. Feb. 2, 1832, Silas Waterman of 

Lebanon, N. H. 
vi. Thomas, b. Dec. 25, 1810; m. May 17, 1843, Joanna S. Davis of 
Springfield, N. H. 



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\di. Anna, b. Nov. 12, 1812 ; d. May 31, 1817. 

viii. Harriet Waterman, b. Sept. 7, 1814; m. Mar. 4, 1837, Allen Hay- 
den Weld of Braintree, Vt. 

ix. Martha Hyde, b. Aug. 8, 1816 ; living at Lebanon, N. H., in 1857. 

X. Alban Palmer, b. Jan 28, 1819 ; m. May 1, 1853, Rhoda T. Eaton 
of Grantham, N. H. 



Some two or three miles in an air line from the " Old Pine Cemetery " 
of Lebanon, in Sidlivan Co., in that part of the town of Plaintield knoW 
as East Plainiield, is located one of the oldest and largest burial gi-ounds of 
the vicinity. It is in a hilly district, and though only about four miles 
east of the Connecticut, which separates these two New Hampshire towTis 
from those of Windsor Co. in Vermont, its altitude is much above the level 
of the river. It has ample space for future generations. It has been well 
cared for, and on the Augiist day that the compiler and his gi'andson (a 
imiversity student) copied the inscriptions of its headstones its condition 
suggested affectionate remembrance of surviving relatives, and rest and 
peace for those beneath its sod. 

Charles, son of Erastus and Delilah Adams, died Nov. 6, 1826, aged 
19 mos. 

Joshua Allard, died Oct. 17, 1885, JE. 70. 9th Vt., Co. D. [See Al- 
mira S. Chase.] 

Agnes B. Allard, May 2, 1806— March 22, 1872. 

Hannah, wife of Stillman Barker, died April 24, 1849, aged 57. 

John Barker, Aug. 2, 1829.— Dec. 7, 1903. 

Sophia C. his wife. May 3, 1834— Sept. 6, 1898. 

Nancy S., wife of George W. Beers, who died June 18, 1857, M. 27. 

Henry A. Bauchard, born Sept. 18, 1839, died Nov. 25, 1892. 

John A. Brockelbauk, died May 6, 1879, aged 63 years 1 mo. 6 days. 

Sarah M. Howe, wife of John A. Brockelbank, " died Nov. 14, 1871, 
aged 52 years 4 mos. 12 days. 

Ozias, son of John A. and Sarah M. Brockelbank, died Sept. 16, 1849, 
aged 1 year 11 mos. 10 days. 

Betsey, wife of Amos Buckman, died Feb. 28, 1876. 

In memory of IVIi's. Roxana, wife of Peter Carr, who died May 11th, 
1804, JE. 25." 

Betsey, wife of Peter Carr, died Feb. 13, 1837, aged 39 years, 4 mos. 

Hannah M. Carr, died Nov. 7th, 1845, aged 18 years 3 mos. and 14 
days. 

Lydia, daughter of Peter and Betsey Carr, died Oct. 15, 1831, aged 2 
yeai's. 

Amos L., son of Parker and Phebe Carr, died Jan. 24, 1846, aged 7 mos. 
6 days. 

The genealogy of the name published in 1894, says that Bradbury 
Carr came from Scotland with several brothers and settled in Chester 
[Rockingham Co.], N. H., abput 1724. His wife's name was Anna. 
They had children born in Chester : 

Joseph,"^ b. Nov. 20, 1742 ; m. Hannah Ayer. 
Molly, b. Feb. 20, 1747. 
Parker, b. May 29, 1750. 
Judith, b. May 28, 1752. 



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Parker^ Carr (Bradbury^), born Chester, N. H., May 29, 1750, married 
and had 

i. Bradbury ,2 b. May 6, 1770 ; d. Nov. 8, 1826. 

ii. Parker, b. Nov. 14, 1771 ; d. July 13, 1848. 

iii. Peter, b. Oct. 9, 1773. 

iv. Benjamin, b. Nov. 4, 1775. 

V. Mary, b. Oct. 25, 1777 ; d. Jan. 8, 1851. 

vi. Daniel^''^*^ °' } ^'- '^^''- ^2' 1^80 ; d. Apr. 21, 1861. 
vii. Judith, b. Apr. 4, 1782 ; d. Mar. 31, 1853. 
viii. John P., b. June 10, 1784 ; d. Nov. 10, 1847. 
ix. Nancy, b. Mar, 16, 1786; d. Mar. 30, 1865. 
X. William, b. Mar. 31, 1787 ; d. aged 6 months, 
xi. Meliitabel, b. Apr. 5, 1789 ; d. , 1841. 

xiii. Sarah h. \ ^'^^ ^'^' ^^^^ ' d. Nov. 5, 1876. 

xiv. Hannah, b. July 15, 1795 ; d. , 1889. 

Peter^ Carr (Bradbury), boru Chester, N. H., Oct. 9, 1773 ; died Oct. 1, 

1845; married Roxana , born about 1779; died [May 11, 1804, 

aged 25 gravestone], married Betsey , born about 1798 ; died [Feb. 

13, 1837, aged 39 yi-s 4 mos. gravestone.] Children: 

i. William,' b. v. John, b. . 

ii. Hazen, b. June 21, 1801. vi. Philip, b. . 

iii. Peter, b. . vii. Hannah M., b. abt. July, 1827. 

iv. Jesse, b. , 1812. viii. Lydia, b. about , 1829. 

Hazen^ Carr (Peter,- Bradbury^) born Grantham [Sullivan Co.], N. H., 
June 21, 1801 ; died Oxford [? Orford, Grafton Co.], N. H., Apr. 24, 
1884 ; married , and had 

Jesse,^ b. ; Charles, b. ; Hazen Eugene, b. Oct. 11, 1836. 

Jesse^ Carr (Peter,^ Bradbury^), b. Grantham N. H., 1812 ; mar- 
ried and had 

Jesse KknbalP Carr, b. June 26, 1847. 

Moses Chase, died June 28, 1855, JE. 62. 

Sarah W. Chase, died May 31, 1872, JE. 78. 

Almira S. Chase, wife of Joshua Allard, died May 15, 1901, JE. 73 yrs. 6 
mos. 8 days. 

The compiler has been unable to determine from i^ublished works the 
parentage of Moses Chase. 

There can be little doubt that he is a descendant of an early settler of ^ 
the name in Coimish, another Sullivan Co. town borderiug on the Connec- 
ticut river. The genealogy of Chase will undoubtedly be of interest to 
those of the name or connected with it by marriage, many of whom must 
yet be resident in the vicinity of the old cemetery. Cornish is an adjoin- 
ing town to Plainlield. A "native here and to the manor born " in 1818, 
who will be quoted as authority, wrote in 1867 that "the town of Cornish 
is full of Chases." The genealogical line may also be of some interest to 
others who are not of the locality, as it shows that this New England 
branch of the family gave to the country Salmon Portland Chase, who as 
Governor, Senator, as a member of President Lincoln's Cabinet, and as 
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, gained a national 
reputation. He was born in Cornish, January 13, 1808. Another circum- 



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stance of some general interest is the fact that the line can be traced to 
the great grandfather or the emigrant to New England through three gen- 
erations of English progenitors, making him of the fourth generation from 
the earliest known ancestor of the name. 

Aquila^ Chase (Aquila,^ Richard," Thomas^), horn , 1618, came to 

New England with or after his brother Thomas ; both were of Hampton, 
Rockingham Co., N. H., as early as 1639 or 40. About 1646 he removed 
to Newbury [Essex Co.], Mass. He made his will Sept. 19, 1670, and 
died on the 27th of the following December. He married Anne, daughter 
of John Wheeler. They had 1 1 children, 5 sons ; the youngest child was 

Moses^ Chase (Aquila,^ Aquila,^ Richard,- Thomas'^), born Newbury, 
Mass., Dec. 24, 1663, was an ensign in the Essex Co. regiment; married 
Anne, daughter of Thomas Follensbee, and had 9 children, 7 sons ; the 2d 
son, 2d child was 

DanieP Chase (Moses,^ Aquila,^ Aquila,' Richard," Thomas^), born New- 
bury, Sept. 20, 1685 ; died Sutton [Worcester Co.], Mass., Apr. —,1768 ; 
married Jan. 6, 1706, Sarah March, and had 10 children, 7 sons; the eld- 
est child was 

SamueF Chase (Daniel,® Moses,^ Aquilla,^® Richard,- Thomas^), born 
Newbury, Mass., Sept. 28, 1707 ; died Cornish [Sullivan Co.], N. H., Aug. 
12, 1800 ; married Mary Dudley and removed with his family to Cornish, 
of which he was one of the founders. His children were Samuel, Jona- 
than, March, Dudley, born 1730, Sarah, Elizabeth, Solomon, Anne and 
Mary. 

In the library of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in 
Boston, Mass., there is a single sheet, measuring 8 by 10 inches including 
margins. The printing on its face is but 6 by 7 inches. It shows in the 
form of a letter addressed by a father to his son, the line of their ancestry. 
Its author was Naham Chase, who was born in Cornish, July 24, 1818. 
From the letter the compiler quotes: " Abanby, N. Y., April 3, 1867. 

* * * Your great great grandfather was Moses Chase. He was one 
of the first settlers of the town of Cornish, N. H. He had nine sons, all 
of whom lived to be men : John, Caleb, Nahum, Daniel, Clement, owning 
large farms in Cornish, Harvey a lawyer in Cornish ; Amos, went to Ohio ; 
Mooda, went to Illinois ; and another whose name I have forgotten. 

* * * Your great grandfather John Chase was born in Cornish in 
1752 — had a second wife. By his first had son Cotton * * * by his 
second Moses, a farmer and miller ; Gilman, a farmer, went west ; John, 
who became a merchant in Boston ; Juda, died a missionary among the In- 
dians at the south " [and five daughters] " I believe all born in Cornish," 

* * * Your grandfather Cotton Chase was born Aug. 8, 1783, married 
about 1814 Betsey Chase, who was born Aug. 19, 1789, both of the town 
of Cornish. She was his first cousin, his father Deacon John Chase and 
Tier father Capt. Calel) Chase being own brothers. They had five children, 
Martha C, born Sept. 21, 1816 ;"Nahura (your father), born July 24, 
1818; Caleb R., born Oct. 3, 1820 (of Windsor, Vt.) ; Hannah B.,' born 
Aug. 16), 1824, died at 3 years of age; Caroline Hannah, born Dec. 18, 
1827, died at thirty." In connection with the record of his son's paternal 
grandmother, Betsey Chase, his father gives the list of her brothers and 
four sisters. Her brothers wei'e Caleb, born Cornish about 1797, Kimball 
and Nahum. The last named died young ; the two elder brothers went to 
Boston and engaged in business ; of them he writes : " Caleb went to Bos- 



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ton, Mass., when he was a young man, and became a wealthy dry goods 
merchant — built ships, was a large importer and wholesale dealer * * * 
he is my uncle ; Kimball went to Boston and became a dry gooils mei-- 
chant." This uncle Caleb died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 8, 18(35, aged 68. 
The record of his death confirms the statements of his nei)hew as to his 
birthplace and parentage, but adds nothing to his narrative except that it 
appears by record that his mother was named Elizabeth and that both 
parents were born in Cornish. 

Mr. Nahum^- Chase (born 1818, whose wife was Betsey, daughter of 
Jacob Ecker of an old Dutch family of Berne, Albany Co., N. Y.), began 
his letter to his son with a reference to that ancestor (Moses of the 9th 
generation) concerning whose family he had knowledge from his father 
Cotton^^ and grandfather John^° who was born in 1752 ; but in his recital 
told all he knew as to an earlier progenitor. His exact words were " Your 
great, great, great grandfather's name was March Chase." 

The compiler some twenty years since had a liusiness acquaintance with 
a Mr. George B.^° Chase, a son of Theodore^ Chase, a Boston merchant 
whose mansion house stood at the corner of Beacon and Bowdoin Streets 
in that city, whose line to the English immigrant was Theodore,^ Stephen,^ 
Ste})hen,' Joseph,® Atpiila,^ Aquila.'* When his father Theodore^ died in 
1859 he was in possession "of some of the family papers of his ancestor 
Aquila." 

In the investigation of liis family line Mr. George Bigelow Chase had 
the assistance of the expert genealogist Horatio G. Somerby, who after 
an investigation of family and other records in New England, made in 
1869 an exhaustive search of old English records. The result of the 
search was the publication in " The Heraldic Journal " of " A genealogcal 
memoir of the Chase Family," in Old and New England, " witli notices of 
some of their descendants." The record of SamueP (Daniel," INIoses,® 
Aquila,^ Aquila,^ Ricliard,- Thomas^) and the (|uotatious that follow are 
from this work. Mr. Somerby visited Chesham [Buckinghamshii-e] to ex- 
amine its parish register. 

Its earliest record relating to the family determined that Thomas' Cliase 
of Hundrich, in the parish of Chesham, was the father of the Richard^ Chase 
(Thomas^), baptized Chesham, Aug. 3, 1542, who, Apr. 16, 1564, married 
Joan Bishop. Their cliildren, all baptized Chesham, were 

i. Robert,^ bapt. Sept. 2, 1565. vi. Aquila, bapt. Aug. 14, 1580. 

ii. Henry, " Aug. 10, 1567. vii. Jason, " Jan. 13,1583. 

iii. Lydia, " Oct. 4, 1573. viii. Thomas, " July 18, 1585. 

iv. P:zekiel, " Apr. 23, 1576. ix. Al)igail, " Jan. 12,1588. 

V. Dorcas, " Mar. 2, 1578. x. Mordecai, " July 31, 1591. 

The register at Chesham contains no other mention of Aquila, Thomas 
and Mordecai than the record of their ba|)tism. Of the seven remaining 
chililren of Richard Chase, their marriages or deaths, and in some cases 
both, are recorded. 

This shows that three of the younger sons left Chesham and lived and 
died elsewhere." * * * "• Xlie discovery of the unique name of Acpula, 
found nowhere else in England l^efore or since, in any records of families 
bearing the name of Chase, was deemed conclusive proof by Mr. Somerby, 
as it lias been since by other distinguished anticpiarians, of the identity of 



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the American with the English families." * * * Aquila' Chase mar- 
ried [family tradition holds her name to have- been Sarah] and had sons 

Aquila,^ born 1618 ; died Newbury, Essex Co., Mass., Dec. 27th, 1G70 ; 
who married Anna Wheeler, and 

Thomas^ Chase, who was of New England as early as 1636; married 
Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Philbrick of Hampton [Rockingham Co.], 
N. H., where he died in 1653. Five of their sons are of record. 

In the Heralds Visitation of Buckinghamshire of 1634 the coat armor 
of the Chases of Chesham is given as " Gules, four crosses patonce, ar- 
gent ; on a canton azure, a lion passant, or. Crest, a lion rampant, or, 
holding between his feet a cross patonce, argent." 

Mr. Chase's work connects the Cornish branch with their English ances- 
tors, for among the descendants of Thomas^ of Hundrich he includes that 
March^ Chase who was the son of SamueF and Mary (Dudley) Chase, who 
were among the earliest settlers of Cornish, N. H. 

Dudley^ Chase, son of SamueF and brother of March® Chase of Cor- 
nish, N. H., was born , 1730; died Apr. 13, 1814; married Aug. 

23, 1753, Alice Corbet of Mendon [Worcester Co.], Mass. Children : 
i. Salmon,® b. Sutton, Mass., July 14, 1761 ; an eminent lawyer of 
Portland, Me. 

ii. Ithamar, b. Sutton, Mass., , 1763 ; m. Janet Ralston. 

iii. Baruch b. Cornish, N. H., Mar. 27, 1764. 

iv. Heber, b. , Sept. 2, 1770. 

V. Dudley, b. , Dec. 30, 1771 ; graduate of Dartmouth 1791, 

U. S. senator 1813-1817. Chief Justice Vermont 1817-1821. 

vi. Philander, b. , Dec. 14, 1775; graduate Dartmouth 1796 ; 

Episcopal minister Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; New Orleans, La. ; 
Bishop of Ohio, 1818-1831. Founder and 1st president Kenyon 
College of Illinois 1835 ; died 1852. 
Hon. Ithamar^ Chase (Dudley,® Samuel,'' Daniel,'^ Moses,^ Aquila,^ 

Aquila,' Richard,^ Thomas^), born , 1763, a distinguished citizen of 

Vermont, married Janet Ralston of Keene, and among others had 

Alexander" Ralston, b. , Dec. 22, 1794 ; and 

Salmon Portland, b. Cornish, N. H., Jan. 13, 1808, graduate of Dart- 
mouth, 1826 ; Senator United States, 1849-1855 ; Governor of Ohio, 
1855-1859 ; again U. S. Senator 1861 ; Secretary of the Treasury 
1861-1864; Chief Justice Supreme Court U. S. 1865; as Chief 
Justice he presided over the Senate on the trial of Andrew Johnson, 
President of the United States, when impeached by the national 
House of Representatives, 1868. 

George W. Clement, died May 11, 1834, aged 55. 

Zilpha, wife of George W. Clement, died April 23, 1833, aged 51 yrs. 
10 mos. 28 days. 

Mary L., daughter of G. W. and M. Clement, died Mar. 13, 1835, aged 
8 months. 

Ebenezer Cobb, died , 1909, aged about 86 years. A new grave; 

no memorial stone. 

Carlos E., son of Edmond H. and Hannah Cobb, died March 1, 1855, 
aged 16 mos. 

Clara E. Talbert, wife of Lucian E. Col)b, died Nov. 1, 1905, M. 47. 

Rachel Rowell, wife of William Codman, died Apr. 26, 1883 ; aged 
82 years. 



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In memory of Parker Cole who died Apr. 25, 1839, aged 83. 
Parker Cole, died Jan. 30, 1880, aged 85. 

Susannah, wife of Parker Cole, died Sept. 26, 1846, aged 51 years 3 mos. 
Eliza, wife of Parker Cole, died Dec. 2, 1857, aged 57 years. 
Mary, wife of Parker Cole, died Dec. 4, 1890, aged 89 years. 
Ransom Cole, died June 6, 1841, aged 24 ) t) ^i t t 

John Cole " " " " - 20 P°^^^ ^^^^™^^- 

Benjamin Cole, died Oct. 10, 1886, aged 67 years 6 mos. 10 days. 
Lucy A., wife of Benjamin Cole, died Dec. 31, 1897, aged 81 yrs. 8 mos. 
8 days. 

The Genealogy of the Cole Family, published in 1908, gives the lines of 
that branch that settled in Plainfield, N. H. 

James^ Cole of Plymouth [Plymouth Co.], Mass., was of Highgate, a 
suburb of London [England], in 1616. He married Mary, daughter of 
Mathiew Lobel, M. D., and Botanist, born Lille, 1538 ; died Highgate, 
Mar. 2, 1616. James Cole came to Saco, Maine, 1632, removed to Ply- 
mouth 1633. In 1637 his name appears upon a list of volunteers against 
the Pequot Indians. 4 children of record, 3 sons ; the 2d son, 2d child 
was 

Hugh^ Cole (James^) born London, England , 1627; died Swansea 

[Bristol Co.], Mass., Jan. 22, 1699 ; married Jan. 9, 1654, Mary, daugh- 
ter of Richard Foxwell of Barnstable [Barnstable Co.], Mass ; married 2d, 
Jan. 1, 1689, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Lettuce of Plymouth 
[Plymouth Co.], Mass., and 3d," Jan. 30, 1694, Mary, daughter of Robert 
Shelley. 10 children, 6 sons. The youngest child was 

Benjamin^ Cole (Hugh,^ James^), born Swansea, Mass., , 1678; 

died , 1748 ; will probated Oct. 4th of that year ; married June 27, 

1701, Hannah, daughter of Caleb and Elizabeth (Bullock) Eddy, who died 
Sept. 29, 1748. The house he built in Swansea in 1701, is still standing 
as built. He was Deacon of the church in that place. 8 children, 6 sons ; 
the 2d son, 3d child was 

Benjamin^ Cole (Benjamin,' Hugh,^ James^), born Swansea, Mass., Oct. 
31, 1706; died Dec. 20" 1776; married Nov. 19, 1730; Elizabeth, daugh- 
ter of Thomas and Hope (Huckins) Nelson of Middlebo rough [Plymouth 
Co.], Mass., who died Mar. 25, 1748 ; married 2d, Sejit. 22, 1749, Han- 
nah, widow of Job Luther, daughter of Richard Harding. 12 children, 7 
sons; the 5th son, 10th child, was 

Parker® Cole (Benjamin,* Benjamin,^ Hugh,^ James^), born Swansea, 
Mass., Jan. 13, 1756 ; died Plainfield [Sullivan Co.], N. H., Apr. 25, 1839 ; 
married July 1 2, 1783, Lois, daughter of Job and Anna (Horton) Martin. 
He was a Revolutionary soldier from Swansea. Soon after the war he 
removed to Grafton [Grafton Co.], N. H., and in 1822 to Plainfield. [A 
clerical or typographical error in the published work has confused the 
record of the first two children Elizabeth and Luther, the 3d child in that 
record was] 

Parker® Cole (Parker,® Benjamin,* Benjamin,^ Hugh,- James^), born 
Grafton, N. H., Jan. 31, 1795 ; died Plainfield, N. H., Jan"^ 30, 1880 ; married 
July 20. 1814, Susannah, daughter of John Frederic Tom, born Dec. 15, 
1794; died Sept. 26, 1846. Her father was a Revolutionary soldier. They 
lived in Grafton until 1828, when he purchased the farm owned by his 
wife's father and moved to Plainfield. Children : 



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i. Almlra,' b. Grafton, July 17, 1815; d. Aug. 20, 1884; m. Oct. 5, 

1835, Levi Goss, 8 cliildren. 
ii. Rawson, b. Grafton, June 19, 1817 ; d. June 6, 1841 ; m. Eliza A 

Baclius. 
iii. Benjamin, b. Grafton, Mar. 23, 1819 ; m. Ann Hatch, 
iv. John, b. Grafton, Mar. 30, 1821 ; d. June 6, 1841, with brother 

drowned. 
V. Converse, b. Grafton, Sept. 5, 1822 ; m. Mary A. Winlvlev. 
vi. Eufus Martin, b. Plaintield, July 30, 1828 : m. Mary D. Whitaker. 
vii. Hannah, b. Plaintield, Aug. 1, 1831 ; m. Alonzo W. Putnam. 
Benjamin" Cole (Parker,*^ Parker,^ Benjamin,'* Benjamin^ Hugh,- 
Jamesi), born Grafton, N. H., Mar. 23, 1819 ; d. Plainlieid, N. H.. Oct. 
10, 1880 ; married Ann Hatch, born Hanover [Grafton Co.], N. H., Apr. 
23, 181 G; died Plainlieid, Dec. 31, 1897. Children: 
i. Mary8 Ann, b. Plamfield, N. H., Jan. 15, 1841 ; m. Apr. 23, 18G0, 
Horace, son of Peter and Eliza (Hardy) Green, b. Grafton, N. H., 
Feb. 17, 1824; d. Grantham [Sullivan Co.], N. PL, Dec. 2, 
1893. 3 children. 
ii. Parker, b. Plaintield, N. H., July 25, 1842 ; d. May 5, 1849. 
iii. John Monroe, b. Plaintield, N.'H., Sept. 14, 1845; m. Sept. 15, 
18GG, Nancy Leverett {sic) daughter of Jonathan and Melinda 
[Marinda Leavitt], b. Grantham [Sullivan Co.], N.H., June 15, 
1841; d. Dec. 12, 1880; m. 2d, Lizzie, daughter of Frank H. 
and Emma Pope. Children : 
i. Burton^ A., b. Aug. 19, 18G8 ; m. Dec. 25, 1893, Edith Clark, 
ii. Arthur Benj". b. j\dy 13, 1869 ; m. Dec. 10, 1894, Nettie- Kim- 
ball, 
iii. Vesta Louise, b. July 15, 1871 ; m. Dec. 6, 1887, George Gile. 
iv. Benjamin Monroe, b. Aug. 28, 1895? 1875. 
iv. Susan Sarah, b. Plainlieid, N. H., July 28, 1851 ; m. Sept. 29, 18G9, 
George E., son of Azor and Rosella Paul, b. Newport [Sullivan 
Co.],"N. H., Aug. IG, 1845. 2 children. 
V. George Smith, b. Plainlieid, N. H., Apr. 11, 1854: d. Oct. 10, 
1898 ; m. Nov. 26, 1874, Mary A. Jordan of the Meriden district 
of Plainlieid. Children : 
i. Susie M., b. Feb. 2, 1876. iv. Herbert, b. Oct. 30, 1885. 

ii. Clarence E., b. Aug. 23, 1878. v. Perley, b. Sept. 20, 1887. 
iii. Charles, m. Jan. 16, 1900, Agnes M. Stone. 
Converse'^ Cole (Parker,® ^ Benjamin,* ^ Hugh," James,-'), born Grafton 
[Grafton Co.], N. H., Sept. 5, 1822 ; died Clinton [Worcester Co.], Mass., 
Dec. 11, 1902; married Sept. 11, 1847, Mary A., daughter of Deacon 
Samuel Winkley. Rep. in N. H. Legislature 1872-73. Several years 
postmaster at Meriden district of Plaintield, N. H. Children : 

i. SamueP Winkley, b. Meriden, Dec. 24, 1848; m. Feb. 27, 1870, 

Clarice A. Green. 
ii. Susan Elizabeth, b. Meriden, Mar. 7, 1851 ; d. June 20, 1856. 
iii. Darwin Boyden, b. Meriden, Oct. 31, 1852; m. May 10, 1881, 

Susie Ruggles. 
iv. Ida May, b." Meriden, Fel). 3, 1855 ; m. Croyden M. Fay of Clin- 
ton, Mass., 1902. 
V. Flora Ann, b. Meriden, Oct. 10, 1857. 



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Eufus Mavtiu" Cole (Parker/'^ Beujiimiu,^ ^ Iltigli,- James^), ])oni Plain- 
field, [Sullivan Co.], July 30, 1828; died Sept. 18, 1883; married Sept. 
— , 1849, Mary D., daughter of Epliraim and Abigail (Davis) Whitaker. 
Children : 

i. Rufus« Parker, b. Plainfield, Aug. 14, 1851 ; d. , 1889 ; m. 

Hattie Mathews, 
ii. Eliza Seaver, b. Plaiulield, Nov. 22, 1852 ; m. June 25, 1870, Lyud 

T. Kimball, 
iii. Mary E., b. Plainfield, Feb. 3, 1855 ; m. Apr. 2, 1874, John F. 

Sinith. 
iv. Jennie Almira, b. Plainfield, June 13, 185G ; m. Sept. 23, 1884, 

Wm. Hoisington. 
V. Charles Ransom, b. Plainfield, Mar. 2G, 1858; d. Apr. 29, 1858. 
vi. Abbie Ella, b. Plainfield, June 21, 1864 ; d. Aug. 16, 1865. 
vii. George B., b. Plainfield, Dec. 5, 1865 ; m. Dec. 3, 1890, Ida Penny. 
Hannah'' Cole (Parker,^ ^ Benjamin,^ ^ Hugh,- James^), born Plainfield 
[Sullivan Co.], N. H., Aug. 1, 1831; married Jan. 1, 1850, Alonzo W. 
Putnam, born Hanover [Grafton Co.], N. II., Jan. 2, 1828 ; died Haver- 
hill [Grafton Co.], N. II., May 10, 1881. 8 children. 

Elizabeth Copp, wife of Orlando Willmot, died July 13, 1878, aged 85 
years 5 mos. 

Nathan F. Cressey, Sept. 16, 1818— Nov. 21, 1899. 

Sarah S. Willmot, his wife, Nov. 26, 1822— Jan. 30, 1907. 

Sarah E. Cressey, Jan. 5, 1848— May 20, 1903. 

Lilla Bell, daughter of C. A. and Isa Cross, died Aug. 23, 1873, JE. 6 
mo. 23 d. 

Georgie A., son of Charles A. and Isa C Cross, died Sept. 12, 1879, JE. 
19-1 mo. 

Reuben Currier, died Oct. 17, 1868, M. 73. 

Samuel Currier, died Oct. 15, 1799, JE. 31. 

Molly, wife of Samuel Currier, died Oct. 10, 1830, Ai. 63. 

Samuel Currier Jr. died June 14, 1818, JE. 23. 

Susan A. Martin, wife of Nathan M. Currier, died Oct. 24, 1 888, aged 
74 years. 

Luelar, daughter of Dexter and Marier Cutts, died July 19, 1859, aged 
7 yrs. 7 mos. 

Til ton Cutts, died Nov. 18, 1872, aged 34 years 1 mouth. 

Cordelia Rand, wife of Til ton Cutts, died Jan. 12, 1870, aged 28 years 

mos. 

Adelaid daut. of T. and C. Cutts, died Feb. 9, 1859, aged 3 years 2 mos. 

Elmer Cutts, died Jan. 23, 1884, aged 15 years 10 mos. 

The Cutts genealogy published in 1892 is the authority for the following 
enrolment. 

The earliest records of the family give the name as Cutt, and it was not 
universally known as Cutts until 1745. John, Richard, Robert and Ann 
Cutt are known by their wills to have been brothers and sister. In 1657 
John Cutt is first mentioned in Portsmouth, N. II., records. That these 
brothers left England for America l^efore 1646 is a family tradition. Rob- 
ert Cutt went first to the Barbadoes in the West Indies thence to Ports- 
mouth from that place to Kittery [York Co.], Maine. 



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Robert^ Cutt married Mary Hoel, a young English lady of the West 
Indies before his arrival in New England. They had 6 cliildren, 2 sons ; 
the eldest of all was 

Richard^ Cutt (Robert^), who died probably before 1736, married in 
1686, Joaima, daughter of Thomas and Lucia (Treworgye) Wills, who 
died, probably in 1743. 13 children, 6 sons ; the third son, 7th child, was 

Thomas'^ Cutt (Richard,'^ Robert^), born April 15, 1700 ; died Jan. 10, 
1795 ; married Apr. 23, 1724, Dorcas, daughter of Judge Joseph and Plan- 
nah (Stover) Hammond. 8 children, 5 sons ; the 4th son, 6th child, was 

Joseph^ Cutts (Thomas,^ Richard,^ Robert^), born Aug. 2, 1736 ; died 

, 1808 ; married Nov. 2, 1758, Mary Stevenson. They lived in 

Kittery, Maine, until 1789, when they removed with their family to Goshen 
[Sullivan Co.], N. H. 11 children, 5 sons; the 4th son, 7th child, was 

Charles^ Cutts (Joseph,* Thomas,^ Richard,^ Robert^), born Nov. 7, 

1772 ; died Feb. 13, 1824 ; married , 1793, Abigail Hurd, who 

died Oct. 25, 1858, M. 81 years, 11 childi-en, 6 sons ; the eldest child was 

John*' Cutts (Charles,^ Joseph,* Thomas,' Richard,^ Robert^), born March 
23, 1794 ; married Hannah Rand ; 2d, Martha Parsley ; 3d, Sarah Dame. 
The births of his children are recorded in such manner as to show that the 
last child of the first wife was born Nov. 15, 1821 ; the fii'st child of the 
third wife was born March 15, 1842. Children of the 2d wife were 
Dexter,'' b. Sept. 27, 1830 ; m. Maria Rand. 
Til ton, b. Apr. 15, 1832 ; m. Cornelia Rand. 
Addison, b. July 24, 1834 ; m. Rosilla Rand. 
Harvey, b. Sept. 13, 1836 ; m. Mary A. Millen. 

Dexter'^ Cutts, born Sept. 27, 1830 ; died Dec. 30, 1855 ; married Maria 
Rand. Children : 

i. Luella,« b. Dec. 22, 1852 ; d. July 19, 1859 (gravestone). Aug. 
18, 1858 (genealogy). 

ii. Hinkley, b. Jan. 16,''l856 ; m. Jan. 4, 1882, Addie Carry. 

iii. Addie E., b. Dec. 18, 1857 ; m. Nov. 24, 1880, Edgar A. Rogers. 

iv. Otis v., b. Jan. 2, 1861. 

V. Isora E., b. Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. Oct. 27, 1880, Frank L. Stearns. 

vi. Andrew D., b. July 17, 1864. 

vii. Jennie M., b. Nov. 15, 1865 ; m. Dec. 22, 1884, Oliver Merrill. 

viii. Nathan A., b. Feb. 25, 1870 ; d. Nov. 24, 1874. 

Tilton^ Cutts, born Apr. 15, 1832 ; died Nov. 18, 1872 ; married May 
16, 1855, Cordelia Rand. Children : 

i. Addie,« b. Dec. 23, 1856 ; d. Feb. 9, 1859. 

ii. Melinca, b. Oct. 3, 1860. 

iii. Herman, b. Mar. 13, 1862 ; d. Feb. 6, 1866. 

iv. Emma, b. Apr. 9, 1866. 

V. Elmer, b. Mar. 6, 1869 ; d. Jan. 23, 1884. 

Harvey'' Cutts, born Sept. 13, 1836 ; married Mar. 28, 1865, Mary A. 
Millen. Children : 

i. Elmer« H., b. July 11, 1866. 

ii. Ina, b. July 28, 1868. 

iii. Harvey John, b. Sept. 26, 1871. 

Roxana, wife of William H. Dugan, died Feb. 12, 1848, aged 29 years 
6 mos. 
Clarinda Dwinell, died Dec. 26, 1881, aged 78. 



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William L. Martin, born Sept. 29, 1819 ; died Dec. 28, 1884. 

Emiline F. Eaton, wife of William L. Martin, born Nov. 16, 1818, died 
Aug. 25, 1891. 

Samuel Emerson, -ZE. 77. Nothing more on memorial stone except 
" Father " on its top. 

John Emerson, died Dec. 7, 1853, JE. 80. Lydia, his wife, died Nov. 
25, 18 GO M. 93. 

Daniel Emerson, died Mar. 31, 1878, JE. 77. 

Clarrisa B., wife of Daniel Emerson, died Jnne 27 [omission] JE. 62 
yrs. 8 mos. 

In memory of Richard Evans, who died Oct. 3, 1845, aged 73 years. 

In memory of Mrs. Lois Evans, wife of Richard Evans, who died Apr. 
7, 1803, aged 31 years. 

In memory of Sally, daughter of Richard and Lois Evans, who died 
Dec. 4, 1822, aged 23 yrs. 

David Fifield, died Jan. 4, 1869, aged 77 yrs. 

Polly, wife of David Fifield, died Dec. 23, 1840, aged 41 years. 

Moses Fifield, died Aug. 4, 1890, aged 68 yrs. 1 mo- 12 days. 

Frances A. Wilmot, wife of Moses Fifield [probably still living]. 

George W. Fifield, 1819-1906, Judith E. his wife [probably living.] 

Matilda Maria, daughter of George W. and JucUth E. Fifield, died Aug. 
14, 1856, aged 3 yrs. 2 mos. 

Charlie F., son of George W. and Judith E. Fifield, died July 16, 1859, 
aged 1 yr. 10 mos. 

Dan Herbert, son of George W. and Judith E. Fifield, died Sept. 24, 
1862, aged 9 mos. 

Walter Maurice, son of George W. and Judith E. Fifield, died Sept. 27, 
1874, aged 8 yrs. 4 mos. 8 dys. 

Samuel Fifield, died Feb. 19, 1868, aged 74 years. 

Lydia, wife of Samuel Fifield, died Apr. 1, 1877, aged 82 years. 

Eliza A. Fifield, died Feb. 19, 1858, aged 31 yrs. 2 mos. 

Anna Foss, wife of Capt. Reuben Moore, died" May 14, 1862, ^E. 92 yrs. 

In memory of Lois, wife of Aaron Frost, who died Mar. — , 1807, aged 
42, and her two children. 

In memory of Joseph, son of Mr. Nathaniel and Lydia Garland, who 
died Aug. 11, 1803, in his 2d year. 

The genealogy of the name published in 1897 gives the pethgree of a 
family which in that latter part of the 18th and earlier part of the 19th 
centuries was settled in Plainfield where eleven of its children were born. 

Peter^ Garland, mariner, born in England, married Elizabeth , 

who died in 1687, aged 88 years. Resided Charlestown, which settled in 
1630, in 1874 became a part of the city of Boston, Mass. [Wyman's 
valuable work on the families and estates of that place says of him that he 
was granted a lot of five acres and permitted to buy Mr. Wainwri^'ht's 
house in 1637. He died " in the South " while on a voyage.] Their chil- 
dren " who settled in the North " were John, Peter and George. 

John' Garland (Peter'), born between 1620 and 1622, died Jan. 4, 1672 ; 
residence Hampton [Rockingham Co.], N. H. ; married Oct. 26, 1652, 
Elizabeth Chapman, and in 1654 widow Elizabeth Chase. He was taxed 
as an inhabitant of Hampton in the assessmcint of 1653. 3 sons of record. 

Jacob^ Garland (John,^ Peter^), born Hampton, N. H., Dec. 20, 1656 ; 
died after 1731. He was a farmer, was of Newbury [Essex Co.], Mass., 



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in 1 G83 ; returned to Hampton, was one of the proprietors of Chester 
[Rockingham Co.], N. H. ; married June 17, 1682, Rebecca, daughter of 
Thomas Sears of Newbury. 1 1 chihlreu, G sons ; eklest sou was 

Jacob^ Garland (Jacob,^ John,^ Peter^), born Hampton, N. li., July 3, 
168G ; died Hampton Falls, N. H., about 1735 ; his estate probate(l Dec. 25 
of that year ; married Apr. 28, 1708, Hannah, daughter of Josiah Sanborn, 

born , 1G84; died before 1720; married 2d, Oct. 24, 1823, Sarah, 

daughter of Abraham Drake. 6 children, 3 sons ; the eldest son was 

Joseph^ Garland (Jacob,^ ^ John,^ Peter^) born , baptized Hampton 

Falls [Rockingham Co.], N. H., May 27, 1711 ; died Hampton Falls about 
174G; administration of his estate granted to his widow April 30 of that 
year; married Dec. 30, 173G, Jane Stickney of Hampton, N. H. G cliil- 
reu, 4 sons ; the 3d son, 3d child, was 

NathanieP Garland (Joseph,^ Jacob,'* ^ John,^ Peter^), born June 29, 
1740 ; died Kingston [Rockingham Co.], N. H., Apr. 25, 1820 ; married 
Elizabeth "Woodman of Brentwood [Rockingham Co.], N. H., who died 
Feb. 7, 1824, aged 77 years. G children, 2 sons ; the eldest child was 

NathanieP Garland (Nathaniel,*' Joseph,^ Jacob,^ ^ John,^ Peter^), born 
June 7, 1771 ; died about 1850. " Lived in East Plainfield [Sullivan Co.], 
N. H., and for some time afterwards in Hookset [Merrimack Co.], N. H. 
He operated the first carding machines in Lebanon [Grafton Co.], N. H., 
and in Plainlield, N. H., and opened the first store in Plainfield." He 
married Dec. 5, 179G, Lydia, daughter of his uncle Lieut. Moses Garland 
of Salislniry [Merrimack Co.], N. H., a soldier of the French and Indian and 
Revolutionary wars, born Aug. 22, 1771. Children, all born Plainfield : 
i. Betsey,^ b. June 7, 1797 ; m. Peter Carr ; d. Feb. 13, 1837 (grave- 
stone), 
ii. Clarrissa, b. Nov. 28, 1798 ; m. Joseph Blanchard, of Hooksett, N. H. 
iii. Mehitable, b. Feb. 8, 1800. 

iv. Joseph, b. May 8, 1801 ; d. , 1802 [Aug. 11, 1803, grave- 
stone] . 
V. Mary, b. Sept. 5, 1802 ; m. Josiah Brown, of Concord, N. H. 
vi. Joseph, b. Feb. 9, 1805 ; m. Lytlia Martin, residence Manchester, 
N. H. 8 children. 

vii. James M., b. Sept. 25, 1807 ; m. Eliza . 

viii. Moses, b. Nov. 4, 1808 ; m. Cevella E. Bean of Hopkinton, N. H. ; 

residence Henniker, N. H. 11 children, 
ix. Daniel W., b. Apr. 4, 1810 ; d. July 3, 1889 ; m. Nancy ; 2d, Rhoda 

Thompson [sisters], residence Hooksett, N. H. 3 children. 
X. John L., b. Dec. 1, 1813; m. Margaret Darrah; residence Hook- 
sett, N. H. ; no children. 
xi. Nathaniel C, b. Nov. 4, 1816 ; m. Mary Elkins ; residence Plain- 
field. Their only child 
Guy W.^ Garland, born Dec. 11, 1844; married Sept. 13, 1871, Livina 
M. Upton, residence 1897, Gardner [Worcester Co.], Mass. 3 children. 

William Goodwin, died Oct. 9, 1867, aged 61 years 7 mos. 25 days. 

Hannah, wife of William Goodwin, died Jan. 3, 1892, aged 75 years 11 
mos. 16 days. 

William Goodwin, died Jan. 20, 1900, aged 58 years. 

Amanda Willey, wife of William Goodwin, died Oct. 12, 1876, aged 35 
yrs. 



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Alvin J., son of Arnna and Rebecca Hall, died May 7, 1 858, aged 37 
yrs. 8 mos. 20 days. 

Noble M., son "of Alvin J. and Malana E. Hall, died Dec. 28, 1851, aged 
3 mos. 7 days. 

The unusual name of Aruna suggests that Alvin J. Hall was a son of 
Arunah, son Nathaniel and Mehitable (Storrs) Hall of LeI)anon, who line 
to an English immigrant of 1G.30, is given in connection with the epigraphs 
of " The Old Pine Cemetery " of that town. 

Charles Harrington, G. O. A., 16th N. H. Infantry [no other inscription]. 

John Harris, Esqr., died March 22, 1839, in the 7i)th year of his age. 

Elizabeth, wife of the late John Harris, Esqr., died Apr. 24, 1843, aged 
82 yrs. 

Elizabeth Harris, died Aug. 3, 1836, aged 44. 

Tracy Harris, a soldier in the U. S. army, died at Burlington, Vt., May 
18, 1813, in the 17th year of his age. 

Benjamin Harris, died Feb. 5, 1813, aged 19 years. 

In memory of Alfred and Apphia, twins, sou and daughter of Mr. John 
Harris and Mrs. Betsey his wife. Alfred died Dec. 17, 1799, aged 20 days, 
and Apphia died the 29th, aged 32 days. 

In memory of Hyde and Hiram sons of Mr. Jolin and EIi.zal)eth Harris, 
twins that died Oct*. 20, 1798, aged 20 days. 

Emma W. Hill, wife of James A. liayues, Feb. 12, 185G— Apr. 27, 1891. 

Ezekiel Howe, died Oct. 17, 1841, aged 61 years. 

Sarah M. Howe, wife of John A. Brockelbank, died Nov. 14, 1871, aged 
52 yrs. 4 mos. 12 days. 

Janett, daughter of John and Sarah Howe, died July 10, 1821, aged 1 
yr. 2 mos. 

Hiram, son of Thomas and Susan Jennings, who died Aug. 9, 1813, aged 
1 yr. 10 mos. 

In memory of Mr. David Johnston, who died April 7, 1796. in the 79tli 
year of his age. 

Elijah Johnston, died Aug. 12, 1832, aged 75 years. 

Sarah, wife of Elijah Johnston, died Sept. 10, 1836, aged 79 years. 

Capt. Thomas .Johnston, died March 28, 1883, aged 90 years. 

Delia, wife of Thomas Johnston, died March 28, 1847, aged 41 years. 

Erastus T. Johnston, died March 3, 1853, aged 16 years. 

E. Frances Johnston, April 5, 1840— Aug. 13, 1901. 

Jason F. Johnston, Co. A, 16th Regt. N.'H. Vols., Jan. 11, 1843— April 
13, 1909. 

Albert L. Johnston, died Aug. 6, 1870, aged 3 years. 

Harriet Martin, wife of Elias F. Smith, .luly 29, 1812— Sept. 9, 1849. 

Susan A. Martin, wife of Nathan M. Currier, died Oct. 24, 1888, aged 
74 yrs. 

William L. Martin, l)orn Sept. 29, 1819, died Dec. 28, 1884. 

Emeliue F. Eaton, wife of William L. Martin, born Nov. 16, 1818, died 
Aug. 25, 1891. 

Harriet A. Martin, July 28, 1849— Jan. 29, 1892. [This inscription on 
the reverse of the headstone ; on its face the word Sister.] 

Sylvanus Martin, M.D., died Dec. 7, 1848, aged 67 yrs. 6 mos. 29 days. 

Lois Huntington, wife of Sylvanus Martin, M.D., died Jan. 21, 1860, 
aged 79 years 4 mos. 

Lois D. Martin, wife of George W. Powers, died Aug. 16, 1861, aged 
59 years. 



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In connection with the name of Huntington found in " The Old Pine Cem- 
etery " of Lebanon, N. H., the compiler abstracted the statements of the 
genealogist of the name as to William the emigrant ancestor of Jeremiah 
Huntington who died in that town rlune 18, 1794. A reference to that 
immio'rant was already in type describing him as the first of the name to 
land in New Enaland when the compiler of the genealogy obtained defi- 
nite information as to his father, which confirmed the tradition that he had 
died at sea ; and determined that when his widowed mother landed at Bos- 
ton she had with her not only her son William, but his brothers Thomas, 
Christopher and Simon. The widow about 1G3;J married Thomas Stough- 
ton of Dorchester (a part of Boston since 1870), Mass., who with his family 
removed to Windsor [Hartford Co.], Conn., where he died March 25, 1G61. 

Lois (Huntington) Martin was a descendant of the last named son, the 
line being 

Simonlluntington, born England about 1 GOO, died at sea 1633 ; mar- 
ried England [probably Norwich, Co. Norfolk], Margaret Baret. They 
were the parents of 

Deacon Simon^ Huntington, born England, 1629; died Norwich [New- 
London Co.], Conn, June 28, 1703, aged 77 years; married, Saybrook 
[Middlesex Co.], Conn., Oct. — , 1653, Sarah, daughter of Joseph Clark 

of Windsor, Conn., who died , 1721, aged 8rf years. 10 children, 

6 sons ; the youngest child was 

James^ Huntington (Simon^), born Norwich, Conn., May 18, 1680; died 
Norwich, Sept. 3, 1727; married Priscilla Miller. 6 children, 2 sons; 
the 1st son, 2d child,, was 

James* Huntington (James,- Simon^), born Norwich, Conn., Feb. 2, 
1707; died May 12, 17H5 ; married Dec. 3, 1735, Elizabeth Darby, who 
died Jan. 12, 1790. They lived in that part of Norwich called the Great 
Plain. 1 1 children, 5 sons ; the eldest child was 

^^illiam* Huntington (James,* - Simon^), born Eeb. 1, 1737 ; died Mid- 
dlebury [Addison Co.], Vt., July 4, 1816; married Dec. 11, 1763, Anne 
Pride," who died Mar. 4, 1776; 2d, Feb. 11, 1777, Lois Durkee, and 3d, 
Apr. 14, 1791, Elizabeth Waterman. A soldier of the Revolution. He 
lived for a few years in Lel)anon [New London Co.], Conn., and then re- 
moved to Vermont. 1 1 children, 4 sons ; the 4th daughter, 8th child, was 

Fanny^ Huntington (William,* James,* - Simoni),born Norwich, Conn., 

Nov. 14, 1777 ; <lied , 1S23 : married Nathan Bicknell, and lived in 

Brighton, Vt., and Lebanon [Grafton Co.], N. H. The 5th daughter, 9th 
child, was 

Lois*^ Huntington (William,^ James, * - Snnon^), born Middlebury [Ad- 
dison Co.], Vt., Sept. 11, 1780 ; died Plainfield [Sullivan Co.], N. H., Jan. 
21, 1H6(I [gravestone] ; married Sylvanus JMartin, M.D., and lived in 
Plainfield. 

The most conspicuous monument in the East Plainfield cemetery is on 
the McCollister lot. It is of white marble, and the apex of its shaft is 
gome eight feet above its granite base. Its inscriptions are : 
Isaac E. McCollister, Jan. 26, 1809— Aug. 20, 1865. 
Mary M., his wife, Mar. 25, 1H13— Sept. 16, 1893. 

Their children : 
Sarah A., Nov. 5, 1838— Sept. 13, 1875. 
Elisha H., Mar. 14, 1.S41— Sept. 15, 1845. 
Zura E., Dec. 23, 1845— Dec. 22, 1867. 
Alma F., Feb. 7, 1850— Feb. 9, 1863. 



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Tlie compiler of the genealogy of a Pennsylvania family of this name 
says that " The name McAllister has assumed many changes in spelling 
since the formation of the new clan by Allaster MacDonald in 1263." 
But, however, that part of the surname which follows Mac (which indicates 
cates son of) is varied in its spelling by common use, in all cases where Eng- 
lish or Scotch authors of authority use it, the latter part is written begin- 
ing with an A. The compiler examined the 50 volumes of the New Eng- 
land Historical and Genealogical Register ; the publications of a half cen- 
tury from tlie year 1847. Its indexes disclosed the name 34 times, in 3 
cases only did the latter part of the surname begin with a C. In that 
branch of the family whose name is chiseled on the cemetery monument, 
a tradition exists to the effect that the surname of Michael the great grand- 
father of its ])resent head, was Archer ; that he was born in Scotland, that 
his marriage displeasing his father he was disinherited, that couang to 
America he landed in Canada and settled in Columlna, Coos Co., N. H., 
and later in Piermont, Grafton Co., N. II., and still later in Vermont, dy- 
ing there, near Piermont, which is one of the towns bordering on the Con- 
necticut, the boiuidary between the two states ; that he assumed his mother's 
maiden name, and that he and his descendants ever after have written it 
McCollister. This tradition may be fairly offset by the statements which 
follow. Canada was a French possession for more than a hundred years 
before it passed under the government of the English. War existed for the 
possession of Canada from 1752 to 17l)3, between England and her colonies 
and France and the Indians. Northerji New Hampshire was not settled 
untd that war was over. Michael McAIlaster or McCollister, could not 
have settled in either pi'ovince before the last named date. There is an 
indication that the name was in the vicinity of Plainfield, N. H., soon after 
the conquest of Canada. Jerusha, daughter of Nathaniel Spoti'ord, was 
born Rowley, Essex Co., Mass., May 17, 1742. She died Newport [Sul- 
livan Co.], N. H., Nov. 2(j, 1812. Newport is about ten miles from Plain- 
field, the town of Croyden lying between the other two Sullivan Co. towns. 
In 17()5 she married AVilliam McAIlaster, who settled in Wiscasset, Maine, 
removing in 1779 to Bedford [Hillsboro Co.], N. IL, where he died Feb. 
17, 1787. They had nine children. Widowed at 45 years of age, with 
her young children she j»robably returned to her own people to bring up 
her sons and daughters ; and in this vicinity it is likely she was married. 

And in this connection it may properly be shown that the name was in 
the English colonies as early as the middle of the 17th century. The New 
England Historical and Genealogical Register (Vol. I, 2)age 378) is author- 
ity for the statement that among the jiassengers in the ship John & Sara 
bound from Loudon to Boston in Nov. 1651, were "John Mackalaster, 
Allester IVIacknester, Daniel Mackalester and Sander Mackdonell." 

Tlie compiler of the genealogy of the Pennsylvania branch gives what 
must be the tiue origin of the name. " MacAllister : — that is son of AI- 
ister, a branch of the famous and warlike clan McDonald whose chief was 
Lord of tlie Ish's. [The Hebrides, or Western Islands, northwest of Scot- 
land about 25 miles from the main land.] This clan were always Stuart 
men — and loyal to their King until the final overthrow in 1745. * * * 
Allaster Mac Donald, the progenitor of the MacAUasters, flourished about 
1263, and became chief of a new clan. * * * His son Allaster, Mac- 
Allaster * * * became the chief and headed and led a powerful clan 
that fiourished from that time until the downfall of ' Prince Charles ' in 
1745." 



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The remoteness of the date given as that of the founding of the new 
clan would seem to imjily absence of records. But coat armor came into 
use before the offshoot of the INlacAllaster branch, and Burke is authority 
for the statement that a " Koll of Arms" made between the years 1240 
and 1245 has come down to our times. Both clans claim the title " Lord 
of the Isles," and Burke in his General Armory, declaring that the name 
is " derived from Alexander, eldest son of Angus Mor of the Isles," gives 
for the shield of the head of that clan " charges " strikingly like those he 
also gives to the MacDonald " Ancient Lord of the Isles " and to six of a 
list of Armigers of that most ancient name, all of whose shields indicate a 
common ancestor, he gives the same motto, " Per mare per terras " (by 
sea and land), as he gives to the family of MacAllister. 

Beginning with the earliest known ancestor of the Plainfield — Lebanon 
branch the record of some of his descendants follow, 

Michael^ McC'ollister, parentage unknown, married and had 
Thomas'^ McCollister (iMichaeP), born July 8, 1784; died Lebanon 
[Grafton Co.], N. II., May 15, 1840 ; married Lorinda, daughter of Isaac 
Corey, born June 2, 1784; died East Plaiufiehl [Sullivan Co.], N. H., 
Aug. 3, 1866. Children: 

i. Marsilva,^ b. Columbia, Coos Co., N. II., or Piermont, Grafton Co., 
N. IL, Aug. 8, 1807; d. Plainfield, Jan. 25, 1886; m. Harry 
Corey. 
ii. Isaac E., b. Columbia, Coos Co., N, H., or Piermont, Grafton Co.. 

N. H., Jan. 26, 1809 ; m. Mary M. Gray, 
iii. Ira, b. Columbia, Coos Co., N. II., or Piermont, Grafton Co., N. H., 
Sept. 21, 1810; d. Bedford, N. H., about 1850; m. Lucinda 
Lovei'ing. 
iv. Maria, b. "Piermont, Grafton Co., N. H., July 15, 1812 ; d. Bed- 
ford, N. H. ; m. Snow. 

V. John, b. Piermont, Grafton Co., N. II., Mar. 26, 1814 ; d. Bedford, 

N. H. ; m. Margaret . 

vi. Harriet, b. Piermont, Grafton Co., N. H., May 2, 1816; d. Bed- 
ford, N. H., Dec. 26, 181)5 ; ra. Evans. 

vii. Mary, b. Piermont, Grafton Co., N, IL, Apr. I), 1818 ; d. Bedford, 
N. IL, Jan. 17, 1888; m. 1st, Hayvf ard ; 2d, John Carle- 
ton ; 3d, John Shepard. 
viii. Emeline, b. Piermont, Grafton Co., N. IL, Feb. 26, 1824; d. Leb- 
anon, N. IL, Aug. 5, 1!)05. 
ix. Martin, b. Piermont, Grafton Co., N. IL, June 11, 1826 ; d. Bed- 
ford, N. IL 
Isaac Edson^ McCollister (Thomas," MichaeP), born Piermont [Grafton 
Co.], N. IL, Jan. 26, 1809; died Lebanon [Grafton Co.], N. IL, Aug. 20, 
1865; married Nov. 3, 1833, Mary Milliugton Gray, daughter of Samuel 
and Abigail (Quimby) Gray of Plainfield [Sullivan Co.]. N. H., born 
Plainfield, Mar, 25, 1813; died Hartford [Windsor Co.], Vt., Sept. 16, 
1893, Children: 

i. Benjamin Franklin,^ b, Plainfield, N. H., Feb. 24, 1835 ; m. Lucy 
Abby Scarlett, b. Apr. 7, 1837. Children: i. Lla Frances; ii, 
Frank Edson, d. May 5, 1886; iii. Ira Melvin ; iv. Lucy Mary, 
m. Walter Scott Eastman; v. Daniel Masa, d. Apr. 30, 1870; 
vi. Kate Ella, m. Henry Albert Follansbee ; vii. Eliza Jane. 



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ii. Sarah Abigail, b. Plainfield, N. H., Nov. 5, 1838; d. Lebanon 
[Grafton Co.], N. H., Sept. 13, 1875; m. Lebanon, Oct. 13, 
18G7, Georo-e Wilson Bassett, b. Nov. — , 1840; d. Lebanon, 
Mar. 7, 189(5 ; son, Fred Calvin, m. IMary E. Dinsmore. 
iii. Elisha Iloyt, b. Plainfield, N. H., JMar. 14, 1841 ; d. Sept. 15, 1845. 
iv. Ira Thomas, b. Plainfield, N. H , Feb. 8, 1843 ; m. Sept. 21, 1869, 
Elizabeth Mary, daughter of Daniel IMaxfield of Belmont [Bel- 
knap Co.], N. H. Resides Boulder [Boulder Co.], Colorado. As 
a young man he removed to " the West." About the time of his 
removal he changed the spelling of his surname to McAllister. 
Children : 
i. Daniel Eldridge, b. Lebanon, N. II. ; m. Lulu Hawkins, 
ii. Clarence Milo, b. " " m. Eugenie Estelle Eas- 

lev. 
iii. A daughter, b. Boulder, Col. ; d. Mar. 18, 1882. 
iv. Williain Waldo, b. " " unmarried 1909. 

V. Ray Edgar, b. '' " " " 

V. Zura Eidridge, b. Lebanon, N. H., Dec. 23, 1845 ; d. Dec. 22, 1867 ; 

unmarried, 
vi. Emily Lorinda, b. " " Feb. 14, 1848 ; m. Lebanon, Nov. 

14," 18GG, Henry Hiram Hastings, b. Dec. 21, 1844. Resides 
Gold Hill [Boulder Co.], Colorado. Children : 
i. Infant son, d. Oct. 30, 1808; ii. Mary Emily, m. James E. 
Pittman ; iii. Julia Eva, m. Charles C. Flineau ; iv. Jessie 
Elvia, m. Daniel Coughlin ; v. Florence Lizzie, d. Dec. 7, 
1890; vi. AliceMarion, d. Sept. 9, 1896; vii. Maud Luella, 
d. July 30, 1902 ; viii. Blanche Edna, 
vii. Alma Frances, b. Lebanon, N. H., Feb. 7, 1850; d. Feb. 9, 1863. 
viii. Mary Eliza, b. " " Feb. 25, 1853; m. Lebanon, 

Dec. 7, 1874, Marshall Lothrop Keniston. Children: i. Albert 
Erving, m. Louisa Lariy ; ii. Venia May, m. Albert Guy ; 
iii. Walter Chester ; iv. George Harley ; v. Guy Harold ; vi. 
Harry Cole. 
ix. Julia Eveline, b. Lebanon, N. IL, Mar. 5, 1«56; m. Gold Hill 
[Boulder Co.], Colorado, Feb. 24, 1884, Harry Cole, b. Feb. 22, 
1851. Children: i. Irvine Eugene, b. Dec. 11, 1888; ii. Myr- 
tle Alice, b. Sept. 29, 1890. 

Ransom T. Merrill, died Aug. 25, 1872, JE. 22 yrs. 7 mos. 21 ds. 

Edward T., son of Ransom T. and Fannie Merrill, died Mar. 20, 1871, 
JE. 3 ds. 

Capt. Reuben Moore, died Sept. 28, 1850, JE. 75 years. 

Anna Foss, wife of Reuben Moore, died May 14, 1862, JE. 92 years. 

James Madison, son of Reuben and Anna Moore, died Feb. 12, 1826, in 
the 18th year of his age. 

ReubeA Moore, Aug. 30, 1812— Nov. 3, 1885. 

Ruth Powers his wife, Sept. 18, 1811— Apr. 29, 1892. 

Their sons— Elias S., Nov. 5, 1825— Apr. 1, 1888. Charles A., Oct. 
1, 1854— Jan. 24, 1892. 

Fred Moulton, July 11, 1836 — 

Arabel Rowell, his wife, Dec. 22, 1835— July 15, 1903. 



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Caroline E. Newton, born Nov. 28, 1828— 

In memory of the widow Joannali Poole who died March 27, 1823, aged 
92 y<?ars. 

]n memory of John Poole, who died Jan. 11, 1826, aged 69 years 7 
months and 9 days. 

In memory of Mrs. Sarah Poole, who died Nov. 6, 1811, in her 58th 
year. 

Mary, wife of John Poole, died Jan, 17, 1853, JE. 80 years. 

In memory of Joseph Poole, son of Mr. John Poole & Sarah his wife, 
who died Dec. 7, 1796, in his 3d year. 

TJiomas Poole, died Dec. 18, 1852, JE. 57 years. 

Nancy, wife of Thomas Poole, died May 25, 1851. aged 52 years. 

John Poole, born Aug. 18, 1827, died Sept. 15, 1896. 

Betsey A. Spaulding, wife of John Poole, born July 7, 1830, died Mar. 
26, 1901. 

Jacob Powers, died Dec. 13, 1823, JE. 43 years. 

Ruth Powers, wife of Reuben Moore, Sept. 18, 1811— Apr. 29, 1892. 

George W. Powers, died Aug. 16, 1863, aged 59 years. 

Lois D. Martin, wife of George W. Powers, died Aug. 16, 1861, aged 
53 yeai's. 

Ml-. Eleazer Quinby [Quimby] died Aug. 10, 1808, in the 49th year of 
his age. 

John Ragan. died .Tan. 11, 1873, aged 57 years. 

Mrs. Sarah, his wife died Mar. 5, 1867, aged i')S years 8 mos. 

William H. Ragan, died June 5, 1877, aged 26 years 5 mos. 10 days. 

Clarence B., son of G. W. and I. M. Ragan, June 2, 1906— Oct. 22, 1906. 

Margaret, wife of Uriah Rand, died May 2S, ls,59, JE. 59 years. 

Cordetia Rand, wife of Tilton Cutts, died Jan. 2, 1870, aged 28 years 3 
mos. 

James A. Raynes, June 2, 1857 — 

Emma W. U'ill, his wife, Feb. 12, 1856— Apr. 27, 1891. Their daugh- 
ter Ella E. Nov. 12, 1885 — Feb. 11, 1901. 

Carrie K. Emerson, his wife, Apr. 23, 1857. 

Paul Reed, died Jan. 3, 1854, JE. 83 vrs. 

Mercy, wife of Paul Reed, died Nov. '22, 1853, JE. 80 yrs. 

Two genealogies, one published 1861, the other in 1901, enable the com- 
piler to give the pedigree of Paul Reed. 

William^ Reed, sailed from London, England, in 1635 : settled at Wey- 
mouth [Norfolk Co.], Mass. ; married Avis Deacon, who came over the 
same year in the ship A lice of London. 9 children are of record, 4 sons ; 
the 1st son, 3d child, was 

William-^ Reed (William^), born Weymouth, Mass., Oct. 15, 1639; died 

, 1706 ; married , 1675, Esther, daughter of John and Mary 

(Cook) Thompson and granddaughter of Francis Cook of the Mayflower 
comjiany, wife Esther also died in 1706. 9 children, 4 sons; the 2d son, 
2d cliild, was 

William-^ Reed (William,- William^), born Weymouth, May 24, 1682 ; 

died June 3, 1753 ; married , 1703, Alice Nash, who died Dec. 5, 

1751 ; with three children the family removed to Abington [Plymouth Co.], 
Mass., in 1708. 11 children, 8 sons; the 3d son, 4th child, was 



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Ebenezer* Reed (William,^ William,^ William^), born Abington, Mass., 
July 13, 1709; died about 1790, his will dated Apr. 14 of that year ; mar- 
ried Feb. 21, 1732, Hannah Thompson of IMiddleborough LPlymouth Co.], 
Mass. 10 children, 9 sons ; the 4th son, 4th child, was 

DavicP Reed ( Kbenezer,'' William,'' William,- William^), born Abington, 
Mass., -luly 9, 1740; died Cummington [Hampshire Co.], iNIass., May 10, 
1808; married Apr. 22, 17 02, Mercy [the earlier genealogy says Mary] 
Ford; married 2d, .Ian. 9, 1788, Hannah, widow of Samuel Bates, daugh- 
ter of Kzekiel Reed of Al)ington. The family removed to Cummington 
before 1777. 10 children, 9 sons; the Hth son, (ith child, was 

Paul® Ree<l (David,^ Ebenezer,^ William,^ -^ i), born . Oct. 12, 

1773 ; died [.Ian. 3, 18o4, JE. 83 years, gravestone] ; married Oct. 4, 
17!)2, Mercy Noyes, who died [Nov. 22, 1853, JE. 80 years, gravestone] ; 
both buried" East Plaintield [Sullivan Co.], N. H. 

No children of Paul and Mercy (Noyes) Reed are listed in the genealo- 
gies which are authoi'ity for the foregoing compilation. 

Enoch Rowell, died Aug. 2, 1840, JE. 84 years. 

Rachel, wife of Enoch Rowell, died Dec. 1, 1844, aged 86 years. 

Jacob Rowell, died Sept. '2o, 18(;6, aged 75 years. 

Polly, wife of Jacob Rowell, died May 3, 1873, aged 74 years. 

Samuel D. Rowell, died July 7. 1850, aged 57 years. 

Polly, wife of Samuel I). Rowell, died Aug. 9, 1845, aged 44 years. 

Rachel Rowell, wife of William Codman, died Apr. 26, 1883, aged 82 
years. 

George W. Rowell, died March 28, I 904, aged 75 years 8 mos. 3 Jays. 

Arabel Rowell, wife of Fred Moulton, Dec^ 22, 18;j5-.Iuly 15, 1903. 

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 24, page 
378, and Vol. 25, pages 249, 2()7 and 268, is authority for the following. In 
Col. Moore's regiment most of his ukui were from New Hampshire. In 
the list of Capt. Edward ^Villialns' company a])pears the name of Enoch 
Rowell. Capt. Williams was commissioned March 1, 1744. Of the total 
list, 208 men were from N. H., 50 from Mass. They "served in the mem- 
orable expedition against Louisburg in 1745." It is ju-obable that the Enoch 
Rowell who died in 1840, was son of the colonial soldier. 

Ebenezer Scribner, died Oct. 24, 1852, JE. 57 years 5 mos. 

Polly, wife of Ebenezer Scrilmer, died Feb. 23, 1871, JE. 76 yrs. 8 mos. 
12 ds. ■ 

Orren Scribner, died Sept. 19, 1853, JE. 28 years. 

David Smith, died April 26, 1857, JE. 68 years. 

Elias F. Smith, July 29, 1812— Sept. 9, 1849. 

Harriet ^Martin, wife of Elias F. Smith— Mar. 17, 181 2 -Feb. 20, 1893. 

Philip W. Snow, 1825 — 1876. Barbara Sholl his wife, 1831 — 

Their children — lenuie L., 1864—1876; Nellie, 1862—1878; Emma 
L., 1862—1878. 

Betsey A. Spaulding, wife of .John Poole, born July 7, 1830, died Mar. 
26, 190 i. 

Edwin Spaulding, born 1832— died Mar. 11, 1904. 

The Spaulding Genealogy, published in 1897, shows that Betsey Ann 
and Edwin Spaulding were children of Amos Spaulding of the seventh 
generation from the English emigrant. 



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Edward^ Spauldiug was of Virginia about 1619 ; about 1634, he was 
with his family of Braintree [Norfolk Co."], Mass., where his wife Marga- 
ret died in 1640, his daughter Grace in 1641, and where his son Benjamin 
was born in 1643. The children of Margaret were John, Edward and 
Grace, those of wife Rachel (who was named in his will) were Benjamin, 
Joseph, Dinah and Andrew. His will was dated Feb. 13, 1666, at that 
date he was at Chelmsford [Middlesex Co.], Mass., and died there Apr. 5 , 
1670. 7 children of record, 5 sons ; the 4th son, 5th child, was 

Joseph" Spaulding (Edward^ ), born , Oct. 25, 1646; died Plain- 
field [Windham Co.], Conn., Apr. 3, 1740, JE. 93 years ; married Mary or 
Mercy, daughter of Thomas Jewell, who died Plainfield at the age of 75 
years. The family removed to that Connecticut town not later, probably 
earlier, thau 1714. 12 children, 5 sons; the 1st son, 2d child, was 

NathanieP Spaulding (.Joseph,^ Edward^), born Chelmsford, Mass., Feb. 
24, 1687. He went with or followed his father to Plainfield, Conn. His 

wife was Johannali . 10 children, 6 sons; the eldest child 

Amos* Spaulding (Nathaniel,^ Joseph,^ Edward^), born Plainfield, 
Conn., Mar. 12, 1716; died Hampton [Windham Co.], Conn., JE. 75 
years; married Nov. 14, 1739, Hannah Cary, who died Feb. 5, 1791, JE. 
72 years. 8 children, 7 sons ; the 2d sou, 2d child, was 

Amos^ Spaulding (Amos,"* Nathaniel,^ Joseph," Edward^), born , 

Conn., Jan. 25, 1744 ; died Grantham [Sullivan Co.], N. H., , 

1830 ; married Abigail Herrick, who died Grantham, aged 77 years. " Mr. 
Spaulding moved from Connecticut to Plainfield, N. IL, in 1778, and set- 
tled on the Connecticut river, near Pulsefer's ferry, thence moved to Gran- 
tham ; the part where he lived has since been annexed to Plainfield." 
Children : 

i. Darner^ b. Mar.—, 1765; d. Cornish [Sullivan Co.], N. 

H. ; married Hannah, daughter of his uncle James Spauldiug, b. 
June 4, 1772; d. Cornish, N. H. Children [two or three died 
young] : 
i. Hannah' Cary, b. Sept. 25, 1799 ; d. Cornish ; m. John P. Car- 
roll ; 2d, Moses Hutchinson, 
ii. Daniel, b. Dec. 21, 1801. 
iii. Amos, b. June 11, 1804; m. Anna Packard. 
iv. Mary, b. Jan. 23, 1810; d. East Hanover, N. H. ; m. William 
INierritt. 
ii. Joel, b. Sept. — , 1766; d. Grantham, N. H., leaving no children ; 

m. Nancy Dunbar of Grantham, 
iii. Amos, b. Mar. — , 1768 ; m. Abigail Taylor and had Oliver and 
Abigail. 

iv. Polly ,"b. , 1771 ; d. Plainfield, N. H. ; m. Josiah Fifield. 

V. Zerviah Lindsey Cary, b. Feb. 19, 1777; m. Grantham, N. H., 
Feb. 19, 1807, Jonathan Spaulding, her 2d cousin. They re- 
sided at Merideu Village, l^lainfield. Children : 
i. John'' Landon, b. Jan. 15, 1808. 
ii. Abel Warren, b. May 6, 1810, 
iii. James, b. May 4, 1812. 
iv. Andrew, b. July 11, 1815. 
v. Warren Cary, b. Apr. 23, 1820. 
vi. John,« 1). Plainfield, N. H., July 29, 1781 ; d. Sept. 8, 1869; m. 
Apr. 5, 1807, Betsey, daughter of Herodine Wheeler, b. West- 



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moreland [Cheshire Co.], N. H., July 31, 1777; d. Lebanon 
[Grufton Co.], N. IL, Nov. 20, 1863. Chiklren : 
i. Eliza' Dido, b. Orford, N. H., Dec. 6, 1807 ; d. Concord, N. 

H., 185G; m. George Abbott, 
ii. George Mandeville, b". Orford, N. H., Feb. 20, 1809 ; m. Ro- 

sina Tone. Res. Hartford, Vt. 
iii. Caroline, b. Grantham, N. H., Dec. 27, 1810; d. Concord, N. 

H., 18G9 ; m. Henry C. Sanborn, 
iv. Emeline, b. Grantham, N. H., Dec. 27, 1810; m, Augustus D. 

Shallies. Res. Concord, N. H. 
V. Cynthia Wheeler, b. Grantham, N. H., Apr. 25, 1812; m. Ira 

W. Thompson. Res. Lebanon, N. H. 
vi. Milton Ripley, b. Grantham, N. H., Mar. 5, 1819; m. Fanny 
Low. Res. Burlington. Vt. 

vii. Samuel,^ b. Grantham [Sullivan Co.], Mar. 1.5, 1784; d. , 

1878; buried at Canterbury [Windham Co.], Conn.; married 
Philena Dodge ; 2d, Lucy Carter of Canterbury, Conn. Resided 
Westminster and Hartford, Conn. 1 children, 
viii. Abel,®b. Grantham, N. H., Aug. 1, 1785 ; m. Annie Andrews, who 
died Feb. 8, 1826 ; 2d, Mrs. Lucinda (Andrews) Cox. Residence 
Grantham and Weare, N. H. Children : 
i. Lucinda A.,'' b. May 17, 1820; m. Moses Dutton. Res. Bar- 
nard, Vt. Children, 
ii. Elisha A., b. Oct. 3, 1823. 
iii. Henry H., b. Feb. 1, 1829. 

ix. Abigail,^ b. Grantham, N. H., , 1788 ; d. , 1826 ; m. 

Reuben Stearns of Grantham. 

X. Charles,^ b. Grantham, N. H., , 1790 ; m. Lucy Hubbell ; 

and had son Charles of New York City. 
DanieP Spaulding (Amos,^ * Nathaniel," Joseph,^ Edward'), born Mar. 
— , 1765 ; died Cornish Flats [Sullivan Co.], N. H. ; married Hannah, 
daughter of James Spaulding. 4 children of record, 3 sons ; the 2d son, 
3d child, was 

Amos'^ Spaulding (Daniel,*^ Amos, ^ * Nathaniel,^ Joseph," Edward'), born 
Plaintield [Sullivan Co.], N. H., June 21, 1804 ; died Croyden [Sullivan 
Co.], N. H., Oct. 16, 1888; married Dec. 16, 1827, Anna Packard of Leb- 
anon [Grafton Co.], N. H. Residence, Grantham, afterward Croyden. 
Children : 

i. Betsey Ann,* b. July 7, 1830 ; d. [Mar. 26, 1901, gravestone] ; m. 

Apr. 28, 1853, John Poole. Res. E. Plalnfield. 
ii. Edwin, b. Apr. 9, 1832; d. [Mar. 11, 1904, gravestone] ; unmar- 

I'ied. 
iii. Janette, b. Sept. 22, 1836 ; m. Elias Moore. Residence East Plain- 
field, 
iv. Edgar, b. Mar. 4, 1840 ; m. Eel). 11, 1861, Josephine L. Huntley 
of Newington [Hartford Co.], Conn. Residence Croyden, thence 
Lebanon, N. H. Had son 

Fred E.« Spaulding, b. Dec. 17, 1861. 

Emma A., wife of George E. Stearns, born Nov. 4, 1855, died Mar. 21, 
1894. 



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The Stearns Genealogy, published in 1901, shows the line of progenitors 
of her husband : 

Charles^ Stearns, born England, was admitted a freeman at Watertown 
[Middlesex Co.], Mass., May G, 1(54G ; purchased homestead there 1648. 
His first wife Hannah, died Watertown June 30, 1651 ; married 2d, June 
22, 1654, Rebecca, daughter of John Gibson of Cambridge. He was resi- 
dent of the town in which he settled tdl 1681, after that date he is sup- 
posed to have removed to that part of Lynn now Lynnfield [in Essex Co.], 
Mass. 7 children, 5 sons ; the 3d son, 3d child, was 

John^ Stearns (Charles^), born Cambridge [Middlesex Co.], Mass., Jan. 
24, 1657 ; died Lexington [in that county], Feb. 22, 1722; married 1681, 
Judith Lawrence; 2d, Apr. 2, 1713, Mary Norcross. 13 children, 7 sons ; 
the 3d son, 6th child, was 

John" Stearns (John,^ Charles^), ])orn , 1692 ; baptized May 11, 

1701. With his wife he was living in 1762. Two of his children were 
baptized in Watertown [Middlesex Co.], but he was of Worcester [Wor- 
cester Co.], Mass., as early as 1722. "In 1748 he was captain of a com- 
pany of Rangers, raised in Worcester, and sent to repel the hidians." He 
married Aug. 10, 1713, Deliverence, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Flagg) 
Bigelow of Watertown, Mass. 9 children of record, 7 sons ; the 3d son, 
3d child, was 

Samuel^ Stearns (John,^ " Charles^), born , 1720; died Worces- 
ter, Mass., Mar. 17, 1776; married Jemima Hoyt of .Monadnock, who was 
the mother of four children; 2d (published Nov. 27, 17()2), Sarah Ann 
Grover of Grafton [Worcester Co.], Mass., who died Apr. 9, 1777. In 
1757 he was of Capt. Samuel Warren's Co. 10 children, 7 sons ; the 2d 
son, 2d child, was 

DanieP Stearns (Samuel,^ John,^ - Charles^), born , 1756 ; died 

Newport [Sullivan Co.], N. H., May 4, 1849 ; married , 1776, Je- 

rusha, daughter of Joseph Clarke, of Saybrook [Middlesex Co.], Conn., 
born Oct. 30, 1756 ; died Oct. 31, 1816; "2d, Jan. 1, 1820, Lois, daughter 
of Hezekiah Rice of Claremont [Sullivan Co.], N. H. She died Mar 19, 
1847. He resided in Claremont and Cornish, N. li., before going to New- 
port. " He served 3 years in the Revolutionary war. May 6, 1777, with 
his brother Asa was of Ca]it. Wm. Scott's Co., Col. Stark's regiment, N. 
H. Continental Army." 13 children, 8 sons; the 7th son, the 11th child, 
was 

George® Stearns (Daniel,^ Samuel,^ .John,''' " Charles^), born May 30, 
1798 ; married , 1822, Betsey Weed and settled in Illinois. 4 chil- 
dren, 3 sons ; the 3d son, 3d child, was 

Eli \\J Stearns of Cornish [Sullivan Co.], N. IL, married July 4, 1 852, 
Catherine Elizabeth Lane, born Feb. 2, 1H29 ; settled in Meriden Village 
of Plainfield [Sullivan Co.], N. H. " He was a soldier of the Union 
Army, during the Civil War." Children : 

i. Mary ,Tane,« m. Henry B. Howe, who d. Apr. 7, 1878 ; 2d, Oct. 16, 
1881, Geo. W. Doyle. 

ii. George E., m. Mar. 3, 1890, Emma A. Woodward, who died Mar. 
2U 1894. 

iii. Orron A., m. Aug. 30, 1878, Etta Robinson ; resided Meriden, 
IMainfield, N. H. 

iv. Edward F., m. Feb. 5, 1880, Lura Spaulding ; he died Mar. 2, 
1881 ; had daughter Edna F., born Mar. 6, 1881. 



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V. Elmer E., b. Dec. 28, ISGl ; d. A])r. 22, 18G3. 

vi. Sarah A., m. May G, 188(), Aslier G. Cutting of Chicago, 111. 

Elizabeth II., wife of Moses K. Stickney, died Apr. 4, 1834, age 24 years. 

The Stickney Genealogy of this name states that the English emigrant 
to New England was William' Stickney, a son of William Stickney of 
Frampton, a parish in Lincolnsliire, England (.'5| miles south of tlie an- 
cient town of Boston), who was bajitized in its church of St. Mary Dec. 
30, 1558, and married June 16, 1585, Margaret Peirson. William Stick- 
ney, tlie junior of the name, was ])aptized in the parish church Sept. G, 1592. 
He came to New England in 1G37, landed at Boston, Mass., and with his 
wife Elizabeth was admitted to membership in the first church of that place 
Jan. G, 1G38, and in Nov. 1G39 was dismissed to the church at Rowley 
[Essex Co.], Mass., where he died in .Jan. 1G65. His wife, l)orn about 
IGOS, was living in Sept. 1G78. 10 chihbvn of record, 5 sons; the 3d son, 
4th child, was 

Lieut. John^ Stickney (William^), born Rowley, Mass., Mar. 4. 1G40; 
died there in 1709; married June 9, 1 G80, Hannah, daughter of the Capt. 
Samuel Brocklebank of Rowley who was killed in the fight with the In- 
dians at Sudbury, Mass., Apr. 21, 1676. The compiler traced descendants 
of this name (sometimes spelled Brockelbank) into the state of New Hamp- 
shire. He has no doubt that the Brockelbanks liorn to that surname, who 
were Iniried in this cemetery, are direct descendants of Capt. Samuel and 
his wife Hannah Brocklebank who were married in Rowley, May 1 8j I 652, 
although lie could not construct for them an unl)roken line of descent. 
Lieut. .John Stickney was also of King Philip's war in the action of Dec. 
19, 1675, at the capture of the Narraganset fort, and in the fight in which 
his wife's father was killed. 7 children, 2 sons; the 1st son, 4tli child, was 

Samuel'' Stickney (.lohn,- William'), born Rowley, Mass., Mar. 2<) (bapt. 
Mar. 30), 1G90; died Rowley Nov. 3, 1760; married Nov. 15. 1715, Su- 
sannah Perley, who died July 12, 1773, aged 76. 10 children, 6 sons ; 
the 4th sou, 7th child, was 

DanieP Stickney (Samuel,^ John,^ William'), born Rowley, Mass., Apr. 
5 (bapt. Apr. 12), 1730. He was of Newbury [Essex Co.], Mass, in 
1755, Hopkinton [Merrimack Co.], N. IL, in 1767, thence to Enfield 
[Grafton Co.], N. H., where he died. He married Newburv, Mass., Mar. 
11, 1755, Sarah Gould, who died in Enfield Mar. 18, 1813, in her 77th 
year. A soldier of the Revolution. The compiler of the genealogy says 
"he was out with Washington in the Jerseys." Children : 

i. Duttee,^ b. Newbury, Oct. 15, 1755; d. Crown Point; soldier 
French and Indian War ; unmarried. 

ii. Sarah, b. Newbury, Dec. 14, 175(5; d. unmarried. 

iii. Daniel, b. " Sept. 30, 1760 ; m. Sarah Morse ; he died En- 

field, Nov. 17, 1843, a revolutionary pensioner. 

iv. Betty, b. Newbury, Aug. 27, 1763; d. Enfield, Apr. 11, 1839; m. 
Jonathan Howe. 

V. Hannah, b. Newbury, .Tune 17, 1766 ; m. .John Cun-ier. 

vi. John, b. Hopkinton, A{)r. 19, 1768 ; d. Sunapee, N. II., Oct. 27, 
1856 ; m. Judith Clark. 

vii. Susannah, b. Plopkinton, Mar. 15, 1770; d. unmarried. 

viii. Nancy, b '' " 1, 1773 ; d. Enfield, Aug. 30, 1845 ; 

unmarried. 



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ix. Duttee, b. Hopkinton, Jan. 19, 1777; d. Oct. 6, 18(3G ; settled in 

that part of Plainfield [Sullivan Co.], N. H., known as Meriden ; 

married Oct. — , 1801, Sally Kimball, who died Apr. 12, 1851. 

Children : 

i. Zebulon Davis,« b. Plainfield, Oct. 22, 1807 ; m. Hannah Read. 

ii. Moses K., b. " Feb. 28, 1810 ; m. E. H. JNlartin, 

m. 2d P. Kincjsbury. 
iii. Horace B., b. Plainfield, Jan. 16, 1812; residence Meriden 

1867 ; unmarried, 
iv. Daniel G., b. Plainfield, Oct. 11, 1814 ; m. Alvira vSmith. 
V. Nancy M., b. " Apr. 30, 1817 ; d. June 28, 1817. 

vi. Charles, b. " Feb. 16, 1819; m. Harriet L. Hazel- 

ton, 
vii. Elias Roberts, b. " Aug. 29, 1821 ; m. Helen M. Daniels. 

Zebulon Davis« Stickney (Duttee,^ Daniel,^ Samuel,^ John,^ William^), 
born Plainfield, N. H., Oct. 22, 1807 ; married Jan. 7, 1834, Hannah 
Reed, b. Oct. 11, 1810. Settled in Plainfield and were living there 1869. 
Children : 

i. Lucy Mariah,'' b. Plainfield, Oct. 16, 1834 ; m. Charles H. Hill, 
ii. Cn-tis Roby, b. " July 24, 1836. 

iii. Duty Clement, b. " Apr. 29, 1838. 

iv. Francis Williams, b. " Apr. 8, 1840. 

V. Catherine Matilda, b. " Nov. 28, 1843. 

vi. Charles Sidney, b. " Dec. 4, 1846. 

vii. Joseph Spencer, b. " Jan. 27, 1849. 

viii. Inez Medora, b. " May 13, 1851 ; d. June 27, 1858. 

Moses K.*^ Stickney (Duttee,^ Daniel,^ Samuel,^ John.^ William^), born 
Plainfield, N. H., Feb. 28, 1810; married Dec. 19, 1832, Elizal)eth H. 
Martin, who died Apr. 4, 1834, aged 24 [gravestone] ; mari'ied 2d, .Tan. 
4, 1836, Philenda Kingsbury. They resided 1867 Lowell [Dodge Co.], 
Wisconsin. Children : 

i. Sylvanus M.^ b. Mar. 10, 1834. 
ii. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 5, 1836; m. Jacob Breyer. 
iii. Kimball, b. May 9, 1838 ; d. Apr. 4, 1840. 
iv. William K., b. Aug. 24, 1840; d. Sept. 7, 1840. 
V. Asa K., b. Sept. 24, 1841. 

Daniel G.^ Stickney (Duttee,^ Daniel,^ Samuel,^ John," William^), born 
Plainfield, N. H., Oct. 11, 1814; married Jidy 8, 1840, Alvira Smith. 
They were living in Plainfield in 1869. Children : 

i. IMary Elizabeth,' b. Jan. 30, 1841 ; m. Charles F. Lewis. 
ii. James Lewis, b. June 13, 1843. 
iii. Elias Smith, b. Sept. 8, 1849. 
iv. Frank Kimball, b. Jan. 7, 1851. 
V. Fred Smith, b. Nov. 6, 1858. 

Charles" Stickney (Duttee,^ Daniel," Samuel,^' .John,^ William'), born 
Plainfield, N. II., Feb. 16, 1819; married Aug. 14, 1851, Harriet Loraine, 
daughter of Rev. Jonathan and Betsey (Dustiu) Hazeltine. Both living 
Nashua, N. H., in 1869. One child : 

George Franklin,' b. Jan. 1, 1853. 

Elias Roberts^ Stickney (Duttee,^ Daniel," Samuel," John,^ William'), 



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born Plainfieia, N. IL, Aug. 29, 1821 ; married Oct. lo, 1852, Helen M. 
Daniels. They lived for a while in Wisconsin, but in 18GS were of Plain- 
field. One child : 
Ada Janett.'' 

Clara E. Talbert, wife of Lucian E. Cobb, died Nov. 1, 1905, JE. 47. 

John F. Tone, died July (3, 1830 : aged 80 years. 

Sarah, wife of John F. Tone, died Feb. 2, 1829 : aged G9 years. 

Orlando AVilmot, died Jan. 22, 1864, aged 73 yrs. 5 mos. 

His wife Elizabeth Copp, died July 19, 1878 aged 85 yrs. 5 uios. 

Sarah 8. Wilmot wife of Nathan P\ Cressey, Nov. 2ij, 1822 — Jan. 30, 
1907. 

Frances A. Wilmot, wife of Moses Fifield [inscription on stone without 
date]. 

Edmund Woodward, died May 17, 1889, aged 37 yrs. 11 mos. 13 ds. 

In the summer of 1907 Mr. Allen F. Dustiu of Hillsboro, N. PL, spent 
part of a vacation 7'evisiting scenes familiar to him for twenty years of his 
boyhood and young manhood. In his walks he sought to tiud a burial 
ground which lie rememliered was on one of the high hills eastward of the 
village of East Plaintield and distant about three miles by an air line from 
its cemetery. The little hamlet with which it was connected was located 
on the crest of the elevation known in its vicinity as Leavitt's Hill. Some 
of tlie larger atlases have its name marked on its site, in the town of 
Grantham, in Sullivan County. Even in the days of his boyhood families 
had begun to abandon the hill, but so great a change had taken place in 
his twenty years absence that it was with ditliculty, and only after a long- 
search, that he found the little cemetery and copied the inscriptions on its 
gi'avestones. The compiler is indebted to him for a duplicate of his manu- 
script. Obtaining such information as was availalJe as to the best route 
to the crest of the hill, in August of 1909, with members of his family and 
relatives, he visited the place, and verified his work. The road over the 
hill extends some two or three miles from tlie Old Boston (now called the 
Croyden) turnpike to a highway nearly parallel to it, couuectiug Newport 
in Sullivau with Enfield in Grafton County. Its condition severely taxed 
the endurance of three horses and the skill of their driver as the mountain 
wagon in his charge lumbered over its uneven surface, obstructed with 
half-grown trees and bushes. Before railroads opened up the interior of 
New Kugland the "pike" was the great thoroughfare from Boston to 
White River .lunction, and thence across the Connecticut to Vermont. 
Where the hill road ,leaves this highway there stood for many years " the 
old brick tavern," which aliout twenty-five years ago w^as destroyed by fire. 
About a half-mile from this entrance there still lingers a solitary farm 
house, and a (piarter of a mile from the Newport road the ruins of a house 
yet held an upright position, though deserted some fifteen years since, when 
the last resident of the hamlet on Leavitt's Hill removed to Newport, where 
he died in 1907 or '8. 

Traditions have begun to attach to the site of the abandoned village. 
The compiler was informed l)y one gentleman that he had been told that 
"at one time there were forty children in its school, all Leavitts." More 
accurate, doubtless, was the information he received from an old resident 
of Plainfield, who wrote " there is an old cemetery in Grantham, near the 



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uortheasterly corner of the Corbin Park, very much neglected, one of the 
oldest in the town. I can remember when there were seventeen families 
and a school of forty pupils ; now there is not a house on the road where 
those people lived." Near a spot on the level top of the hill, where cellar 
holes and ts few decaying timbers gave proof that once several houses were 
clustered, the little cemetery was found. It has an area of from 2500 to 
3000 square feet. Its stone mai'kers indicated that it had been laid out in 
lots or sections. It is surrounded by a good stone wall about four feet 
high. Towards the house lots an entrance space had been left wide enough 
for the passage of a team. It was, however, blocked by a growth of young 
trees two or three inches in diameter. Within the enclosure were trees 
two to two and a half feet in circumference, three feet from the ground, and 
a tangle of young seedlings too numerous to count. Some of the graves 
evidently were still cared for, but the general aspect of the plot suggested 
but one thought — neglect. The inscriptions on its gravestones follow. 

Jonathan Batchelder, died June 19, 1846, aged 89 years [stone slanting ; 
half way down]. 

Sarah, wife of Jonathan Batchelder, died May 4, 1841, aged 80 years 
[stone lying on the ground]. 

Daniel iiatchelder, died March 27, 1869, aged 77 years. 

Julia J), his wife, died March 9, 1869, aged 73 years. 

Mary X. daughter of D. and -J. Batchelder and wife of George Davis, 
died Dec. 17. 1846, aged 22 years. 

George Davis, died March <S, 1869, aged 55 years. 

The genealogy of the name, published in 1898, gives as its earliest 
immigrant to xsew England tlie Rev. Stephen Bachiler, born 1561, died 
1660, and states that, beginning with Nathaniel, his grandson, born in ] 630, 
the surname of his descendants of the American branch has been written 
Batchelder. 

Rev. Stephen^ Bachiler, born England 1561, graduate of Oxford Uni- 
versity 1581, settled as vicar of Wherwell, Co. Hampshire, in 1586. In 
1605 he was " deprived of his beneiice, presumably for Calvinistic opinions," 
and soon after settled in Newton Stay, the nearest hamlet east of Wherwell. 
There he bought and sold land from 1622 to 1631. He emigrated to New 
England in the ship William and Francis, landing at Boston .June 5, 1632. 
He resided in Lynn [Essex Co.], Mass., and Hampton [Rockingham Co.], 
N. 11., but returned to England, and lived at Hackney, now a part of 
London, where he died in l(i60. His 2d son, 3d child, was 

Nathaniel'- Bachiler (Stephen^), born England; married Hester 

Mercer of Southampton [Co. Hampshire], England. [It appears by Vol. 
45, page 53, of the N. E. H. and G. Register that a Jonathan liatclielder 
of Southampton, England, was a legatee by a will dated JMay 31, 1690.] 
The ;jd son, 4th child, was 

Nathaniel'' Batchelder (Nathaniel,^ Stephen^), born 1630; married 

Dec. 10, 1656, Deborah, daughter of John Smith of Martha's Vineyard; 
married 2d, Oct. 31, 1676, Mrs. Mary Wyman, widow of John, daughter 
of Rev. Thomas Wyman of W'oburn [Middlesex Co.], Mass. The eldest 
son, 2d cliild, was 

Samuel^ Batchelder (Nathaniel,''"^ Stephen'), born Hampton [Rociving- 
ham Co.], N. IL, Jan. 10, 1681 ; married, probably Apr. 1, 1706, Eliza- 



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betli Davis of Newbury [Essex Co.], Mass. He was of Lieut. Sweet's 
company in the expedition of 1707 against Port Royal, and "as a scout" 
of C'apt. Davis' company in 17 I 2. Resided North Hampton. 12 chihh'eu, 
5 sons ; the 1st son, 2d child, was 

Henry^ Batchelder (Samuel,* Nathaniel,^ -^ 8tei)hen'), born Hampton, 
N. H, Oct. .'!(), 1709; married Sept. 27, 1730, Mary Marston (})rol)ably 
daughter of .John), born Sept. 7, 1710. He resided some time on the old 
homestead, but removed to Northwood [Rockingham Co.], N. 11., where 
he died. 6 children, 3 sous ; the eldest child was 

Davis'' Batchelder (Heury,^ Samuel,* Nathaniel,^ '-^ Stephen^), baptized 
Hampton, N. H., Sept. 1, 1734; died Oct. 5, 1616; married Mary Taylor 

(daughter probably of John), born Apr. 15, 1737, died ; married 2d, 

Ruth Palmer of North Hampton (daughter prol)ably of William), l)a[)tized 

Oct. 20, 1734, died ; married od, Mrs. Marston of North Hampton. 

A farmer, born Hampton, where he resided until 1770, when he located in 
Northwood, where he ever after resided. 10 children, 8 sons; the 2d son, 
2d child, was 

Jonatlian'' Batchelder (Davis," Henry,^ Samuel,'' Nathaniel,'^- Stephen^), 
born about 1757; died Grantham [Sullivan Co.], N. IL, .lune IS), 1<S4(3; 
married Feb. 22, 1783, Sarah Clitlord of Candia [Rockingham Co.], born 
about 1761 ; died Grantham, May 4, 1841, aged 80 years. 

'1 he genealogy has the tollowing in relation to this Jonathan : " Jona- 
than^ Batchelder ( Davis,® Henry,'' Samuel,* Nathaniel,^ - Stephen'), born 
near Deertield [Rockingham Co.], N. H. [Deertield is the adjoining town 
to Northwood] ; married in Deertield Feb. 22, 1783, Sarah Clili'ord, Ijoth 
of Candia [a town adjoining Deerlield], N. H. She died Nortii Gran- 
tham, N. H. He was in the Revolutionaiy war for eight years, was at 
Bunker Hill, Lexington and other battles. He drew a })ension of i^'J6 a 
year. He died 1846 ; residences North Grantham, N. H." Botli by the 
gravestone and pension record, it is evident that of his father's 10 chiklren, 
Henry, born June 5, 1755, was older, and Simon, born Mar. 5, 1758, was 
younger, than their brother Jonathan. The battle of Lexington was fought 
by men from the immediate vicinity of Concord and the other towns in 
Middlesex County in Mass., between Lexington and Charlestown Neck, 
which is within a mile of Boston. There was no time for men from a dis- 
tance to get upon the ground before tlie battle was over. There were 
troops from New Hampshire at Bunker Mill, June 17, 1775, and as a drum- 
mer boy it is possible that .Jonathan Batchelder was among them; but it is 
not probable that as a drummer he began his service at eight years (^f age. 
The j)ension list of 1820 shows him enrolled in N. H. for service as a pri- 
vate in a Mass. regiment; by that of 1830 he is of Grafton Co., N. iL, 
and his rank is given as a drummer in the " Mass. Continental line ; " the 
list of 1840 has this record : " State of New Hamp. Sullivan Co., town of 
Grantham, Jonathan Batchelder, 83." 

The Batchelder genealogy mentions but one child of Jonatlian and Sarah 
(Clillord) Batchelder, Benjamin, M)orn Apr. 24, 1786; died Feb. 27, 1»57. 
Residence Grantham, N. H, and Fairlee, Vt. ; married .Ian. II, 1815, Me- 
hitable Cilley, born Junl 3, 171)3; died Bradford, Vt., Oct. 5, 1860. 

Daniel Batchelder, born about 17U2, died Grantham, N. H., Mar. 27, 
1869. aged 77 years (gravestone). He was doubtless also of the eighth 
generation and a sou of Jonathan and Sarah (Clifford) Batchelder; but the 
compiler has no other knowledge of his family than that his wife Julia B. 



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was born about 1796 and died in Grantham, Mar. 9, 1869, aged 73 years 
(gravestone), and also that a daughter Mary N. was born about 1824, who 
died in Grantham, Dec. 17, 1846, aged 22 years (gravestone), the wife of 
George Davis, born about 1814, and died in Grantham, Mar. 8, 1869, aged 
55 years (gravestone). 

John Leavitt, died Oct. 30, 1854, aged 84 years. 

Susan B., wife of John Leavitt, died May 11, 1839, aged 61 years 
[stone down and broken]. 

Rachel B., wife of John Leavitt, died Feb. 16, 1853, aged 72 years. 

Mehitable, daughter of John and Susan Leavitt, died Oct. 12, 1842, aged 
33 years [stone down and broken]. 

John, son of John Jr. and Minervia Leavitt, died June 1, 1835, aged 1 
yr. 6 mos. Also one infant, died April 3, 1832. 

Lucinda, daughter of Josiah and Alice Leavitt, died Dec. 20, 1848, aged 
26 years 4 mos. [stone half way down]. 

Alice M., daughter of Josiah and Alice Leavitt, died Mar. 9, 1844, aged 
19 years 8 mos. [stone down]. 

Sophronia M., daughter of Josiah and Alice Leavitt, died July 15, 1851, 
aged 22 years 10 mos. [stone down]. 

Martin V., son of J. and H. Leavitt, died June 26, 1853, aged 12 years. 

Jvdia M., daughter of J. and H. Leavitt, died May 1 1, 1850, aged 3 years. 

Lovina C, wile of G. B. Eaton, died Aug. 3, 1867, aged 30 years [stone 
down]. 

Marinda P., wife of William H. Leavitt, died July 17, 1865, aged 26 
yrs. 2 mos. 

Hattie P., daughter of Y/illiam and Marinda P. Leavitt, died Mar. 18, 
1864, iiged 6 mos. 

The compiler has been unable to determine the parentage of John 
Leavitt, whose ownership and occupancy, doubtless, gave his sin-name to the 
hill where he lived and died. There is ample evidence that the families 
of Batchelder and Leavitt were related and to indicate a probable line of 
Leavitt ancestry. 

The progenitors of Jonathan P>atchelder, the revolutionary pensioner of 
Grantham, were of Hampton, Rockingham Co., N. H., for six generations 
from the time before 1640, when the Rev. Ste^ihen Bachiler settled there, 
till J 770, when Jonathan's father removed to Northwood, in the same 
county, son\e thirty miles distant from the spot where the name was first 
established in New England. It appears by Dow's history of Hampton 
that the emigrant Thomas^ Leavitt was of Exeter, N. II., in 1639, but had 
removed to Hampton as early as 1644, where he died Nov. 28, 1696, aged 
"above 80," that his son 

Aretus- Leavitt, born about 1646, married, Aug. 1, 1717i, Ruth Sleeper, 
and died Jan. 14, 1739, They had not less than seven' children. Their 
2d son, 4th child, was 

Jamcs'^ Leavitt, born about 1683 ; married Feb. 20, 1717, Ann Brackett, 
and 2d, Hannah . 5 children of record ; his only son, 3d child, was 

James' Leavitt, born Jan. 12, 1722 ; died July 29, 1761 ; married Dec. 4, 
1751, Sarah, daughter of Shubael Sanborn. His youngest child of record 
was 



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James^ Leiivitt, born June 22, 1760; married May 31, 1781, Betsey, oi' 
Betty, daughter of Nathaniel Batchekler. They had 14 children, 2 sons; 
the eldest child was 

Sarah*' Leavitt, born June 7, 1782; died, as recorded in town records, 
Nov. 12, 1835, but l)y Dow's record, Sept. 11, 1833, married Samuel 
Batchelder, born Hampton Oct. 15, 17.S0, died June 12, 1857. 

The Betsey, or Ik'tty, who married James* Leavitt was of the Hampton 
Batchelders, and the Samuel Batchelder who married Sarah*^ Leavitt was 
(;ousin to Jonathan Batchelder, who died on Leavitt's Ilill in Grantham, 
N. H., June 19, 1846, the son of Jonathan's uncle, SamueP Batchelder. 
The gravestones of the two wives of John Leavitt (who was born about 
1770) show that Susan B. was born about 1778, and Rachel B. about 1781. 
The initial B. in connection with both names, at a time when "middle 
names" were very uncommon, would seem to indicate that they were 
sisters, born to the name of Batchelder, and Benjamin's birth in 1786, and 
that of his brother Daniel in 1792 (gravestone), suggests the probability 
that at least four of the children of Jonathan (born about 1757) and Sarah. 
(Clifford) Batchelder came with, or followed, their parents to Leavitt's 
Hill in Grantham. 

Without the aid of a genealogy of the name, the inscriptions on the 
gravestones and information gained from a grandson of John and Susan B. 
L(;avitt en;il)les the compiler to make such a first sketch genealogical state- 
ment as follows : 

John Leavitt, born about 1770; died Grantham, Sullivan Co., N. H., 

Oct. 30, 1854; married Susan B , born about 1778, died Grantham, 

Sullivan Co., N. IL, May 11, 1839; married 2d, Rachel B , born 

about 1781, died Grantham, Sullivan Co., N. IL, Feb. 16, 1853. Children : 

i. John, b. about 1708; d. ; m. Minervia . 

ii. Josiah, b. about 1800; d. ; m. Alice . 

iii. Jonathan, b. about 1804 ; d. ; m. . 

iv. Moses, 1). Aug. 6, 1806; m. Phebe Pettingill. 

V. Mehitable, b. about 1809; d. Grantham, N, H., Oct. 12, 1842. 

vi. Nathaniel, b. ; d. . 

vii. William B., b. ■ ; d. . 

viii. Isaac, b. ; went "out West" about 1850; d. there. 

John Leavitt, son of John, born about 1798; married Minervia (Fox?), 
(.^liildren : 

Infant, b. Grautham, N. II. , , 1829; d. Grantham Apr. 3. 

1832. 
John, b. Grantham, N. IL, , I«34: d. Grantham June 1, 1835. 

Josiah Leavitt, sou of John, horn about ISOO: married Alice . 

( 'hildren : 

Josiah L,, b. about 1820; d. Newport, Sullivan Co., N. IL, about 

1908. 
Lucinda, b. about 1822; d. Grantham, Sullivan Co., N. IL, Dec. 20. 

1848.' 
Alice M., b. about 1824; d. Grantham, Sullivan Co., N. H., Mar. 9, 

1844. 
Sophronia, b, about 1828 ; d. Grantham, Sullivan Co., N. IL, July 15. 

1851. 



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Jonathan Leavitt, son of John, horn ahout 1804; married . 

i'hildren : 

Lovina C, b. about 1837; d. Grantham Aug. 3, 1867; m. G. B. 

Eaton. 
Miriuda P., b. May — . 1840; d. Grantham July 17, 1865; m. Wil- 
liam H. Leavitt. 
Martin V., b. about 1841 : d. Grantham June 26, 1853. 
-Julia M., b. about 1847; d. Grantham May 1 1, 1850. 
Mose.s Leavitt, son of John, born Aug. 6, 1806; died Grafton. Grafton 
Co., N. IL, Oct. ^, 18!)4 ; married Phebe Pettingill, born Enfield, Grafton 
Co.. N. IL, 1806, died Grafton about 1879. Son of this marriage : 

Williuui H.. b. Grafton about 1840; m. Miranda P. Leavitt. Child 
of this marriage : 

Hattie P., h. — , 1863; d. Mar. 18. 1864. 



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